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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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‘Daddy, I'm Falling for a Monster’: Women, Sex, and Sacrifice in Contemporary Paranormal Romance [PDF]
Gothic Studies, 2019 This paper examines a key trope within much contemporary paranormal romance: the absence, or ineffectiveness, of the father. The first part of the essay develops an analysis of this aspect of the genre (in the Twilight Saga especially) through the work of René Girard, Luce Irigaray, and Juliet MacCannell. Of particular importance here is the extent to
Sue Chaplin
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Reasonableness in Capacity Law
The Modern Law Review, Volume 86, Issue 6, Page 1447-1471, November 2023., 2023 It is not uncommon for people to hold bizarre views. Sometimes, these views appear before the courts in mental capacity cases. Judges must then decide if the views are so bizarre that they constitute evidence of incapacity or, instead, if those views are the everyday sort that do not constitute such evidence. The idea behind the distinction is that the
Binesh Hass
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How Stephen King writes and why: Language, immersion, emotion
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 78, Issue 5, Page 353-367, October 2023., 2023 Abstract Many successful novelists offer writing advice, but do they actually follow it themselves? And if so, can it truly account for the success of their novels? We dissect and examine three pieces of writing advice from Stephen King's book On Writing (2000). King counsels writers to (1) write in a simple language to aid readers' narrative immersion;
Marc Hye‐Knudsen +2 more
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Mercury Rising: US–Mexican Conflict in Alexander Edouart's Blessing of the Enrequita Mine
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 540-567, June 2023., 2023 Alexander Edouart's Blessing of the Enrequita Mine of 1860 commemorates the discovery of a mercury vein in New Almaden, California. It pictures the mine's Anglo‐American administrators, its primarily Mexican miners, and industry's impact upon the landscape.
Monica Bravo
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Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 280-302, May 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This article proposes a novel justification for privacy rights based on the relationship between privacy and the democratic devices of voting and deliberation. Through an epistemic conception of democracy, I show that privacy, defined as epistemic inaccessibility, justifies a reliance on the vote as the voluntary mechanism of revealing citizen
Russell C. Bogue
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Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Volume 17, Issue 5, May 2023., 2023 Abstract Quantitative explorations of behaviour, psyche and society are common in psychology. This requires methods that justify the attribution of results to the measurands (the entities to be measured, e.g., in individuals) and that make the results' quantitative meaning publicly interpretable (e.g., for decision making).
Jana Uher
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