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“Ravished by Vikings”: The Pre-modern and the Paranormal in Viking Romance Fiction
Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 2016 The trope of forced sex in romance fiction has found itself under scrutiny and pressure since the feminist movement, and even more so now as women's media, especially e-media and social media, grow increasingly concerned with what is called "rape culture"
Kim Wilkins
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‘But by blood no wolf am I’: Language and Agency, Instinct and Essence – Transcending Antinomies in Maggie Stiefvater’s Shiver trilogy [PDF]
, 2017 Young Adult dark romance is often more questioning than its adult counterpart; different, less constraining commercial imperatives are perhaps at work, or readers’ expectations less fixed.
Bill Hughes
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Creatio Fantastica, 2018 Non-existent before the late 1980s, in recent years urban fantasy / paranormal romance has become the prevailing form of the monstrous Gothic in popular culture.
Leigh M. McLennon
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Book genre and author gender: Romance>Paranormal‐Romance to Autobiography>Memoir [PDF]
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2016 Although gender differences are known to exist in the publishing industry and in reader preferences, there is little public systematic data about them. This article uses evidence from the book‐based social website Goodreads to provide a large scale analysis of 50 major English book genres based on author genders.
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Pynchon’s Against the Day: Bilocation, Duplication, and Differential Repetition [PDF]
, 2018 In Against the Day, Pynchon is obsessed with twoness, double worlds, as well as dual realities, and like Deleuze’s concept of repetition, these duplications and twinships are not merely repetition of the same, rather they allow for creativity ...
Rahmani, Razieh, Salami, Ali
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Literatura Niewidocznego — wizje i rewizje urban fantasy
Creatio Fantastica, 2018 A discussion Literature of the Unseen—Visions and (Re)visions of Urban Fantasy collects theoretical reflections upon the subgenres of urban fantasy and paranormal romance, along with a brief commentary on the body of text representative for both ...
Stefan Ekman +4 more
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‘Legally Recognised Undead’: Essence, Difference, and Assimilation in Daniel Waters’s Generation Dead [PDF]
, 2016 Vampire literature since Le Fanu at least has been conspicuously about ‘Otherness’, that crucial term of identity politics, and has thus rendered itself most obligingly to interpretation in terms of those politics—at least, since the rise of that ...
Bill Hughes
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Creatio Fantastica, 2018 Reviewed book: Oblicza wampiryzmu, ed. Anna Depta, Szymon Cieśliński i Michał Wolski Wrocław: Stowarzyszenie Badaczy Literatury i Kultury Popularnej „Trickster” 2018, ISBN 978-83-64863-12 ...
Barbara Szymczak-Maciejczyk
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Reader and author gender and genre in Goodreads [PDF]
, 2017 This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by SAGE Publishing in Journal of Librarianship & Information Science on 01/05/2017, available online: https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000617709061 The accepted version of the publication may differ from
Aubrey JS +25 more
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