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Biting Critiques: Paranormal Romance and Moral Judgment in True Blood, Twilight, and The Vampire Diaries

2014
Paranormal romance is a popular genre in contemporary narrative that features romantic relationships between human beings and supernatural creatures. In recent manifestations of this genre in both television and cinema, the relationships developed between humans and vampires reveal a Deleuzian penchant towards providing insight into how organized ...
L. Houston
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Dangerous Young Men: Themes of Female Sexuality and Masculinity in Paranormal Romance Novels for Young Adults

2014
Patterns of masculine and feminine portrayals can be found everywhere, yet one place sociologists tend not to look is in novels. Young adult novels have generated 27 million dollars in e-books alone in 2011, with paranormal romances and dystopian genres making up the majority of the sales (Scott, 2013).
Shannon L. Russell
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Dark fantasy and paranormal romance

2012
R. Kaveney, E. James, F. Mendlesohn
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Repurposing Fantasy Island: Lani Wendt Young’s Telesā Series and the Politics of Postcolonial Romance

Interventions, 2022
This essay focuses on the YA paranormal romance series Telesā by Samoan writer Lani Wendt Young to discuss how the author repurposes generic conventions to portray island identities and material realities as nuanced and complex.
Paloma Fresno-Calleja
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"Romancing the corpse": an examination of the representations of zombies in young adult paranormal romance

2022
Zombies have long been understood by critical theorists as representing social anxieties and problems - including colonialism, war and capitalism. A stable identifiable figure since Romero's Of the dead series, recent romantic texts have positioned the zombie as a sympathetic lover.
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CONTENT [WITHOUT] WARNING: A COMPARATIVE CONTENT ANALYSIS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE SCENES IN PARANORMAL AND REALISTIC YOUNG ADULT ROMANCE NOVELS

2023
Adolescent girls are at high risk of facing sexual violence during their teen years, risk potentially compounded by the media messages they consume about sexual violence and romance. I employ a coded content analysis of 10 paranormal and 10 realistic young adult romance novels to uncover the consistency of scenes of sexual violence, including sexual ...
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Guilty Pleasures: Reading Romance Novels as Reworked Fairy Tales

Marvels & Tales, 2008
Popular romance novels have much in common with traditional fairy tales: both are highly formulaic; invoke a fantasy realm; focus on the creation or reconciliation of a romantic pair; exist in an infinite variation of texts that fall into distinct types;
L. J. Lee
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