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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.
M. Thelwall
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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
S. Chaplin
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Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 2020 A case study of Sherry Thomas’s Qing-era My Beautiful Enemy (and its prequel, The Hidden Blade) allows for a fruitful discussion of changing representations of diversity in romance fiction and its appeal to readers.
Jayashree Kamblé
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Signa: Revista de la Asociación Española de Semiótica, 2012 A partir de la obra poética de José Ángel Valente construimos una estética de la disolución en la que todo parece disolverse en su propio interior y esta infiniversión crea una red que liga las problemáticas del infinito, el ritmo, la materia, la forma y el vacío.From the poetic works of José Ángel Valente we construct an aesthetic of dissintegration ...
Mónica García Irles
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Utopia paranormal — o legado de Ahmad Khalid Tawfiq
MalalaO escritor egípcio Ahmad Khalid Tawfiq (1962-2018) foi um dos pioneiros na literatura de língua árabe a explorar os gêneros de histórias de horror e ficção científica.
Alexandre Facuri Chareti
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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]
, 1991 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.
Riley, A. M., Townsend, M. C.
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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
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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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