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Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies

open access: yesJournal of Popular Romance Studies, 2012
This paper traces the evolution of the figure of the queer heroine in romance from the Middle Ages through contemporary fiction. We locate queerness not only in a female protagonist’s romantic and sexual preferences, but also in any other identity ...
Katherine E. Lynch   +2 more
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Paranormal Romance: A History

open access: yes, 2018
Paranormal Romance was a term coined in the 1990’s, but during that decade, this subgenre was very marginal. The genre, which was all but disappearing by the year 2000 started to take off at the beginning of the 21st Century.
Ramos-Garcia, Maria T.
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“Oh, my friend, those weren’t angels”: Trauma, Recovery and Folklore in The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal and Spectred Isle by KJ Charles

open access: yesJournal of Popular Romance Studies
Trauma and recovery have been explored more and more frequently in popular literary genres. Despite the positive and uplifting disposition of the romance genre, romance novels do not shy away from depictions of even the most gruesome traumatic ...
Monika Markéta Šmídová
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The spiritual revolution and suicidal ideation: an empirical enquiry among 13- to 15-year-old adolescents in England and Wales [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The association between conventional religiosity and suicide inhibition has been well explored and documented since the pioneering work of Durkheim. Commentators like Heelas and Woodhead point to ways in which conventional religiosity is giving way in ...
Robbins, Mandy, Francis, Leslie J.
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The Factor Structure of Paranormal Beliefs in Female Undergraduates(2) : Effects of Ordinary Thinking Styles on Paranormal Beliefs. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
application/pdfAN0016561X-20161226-69The present study re-examined the factor structure of paranormal beliefs and explored the relationship between those beliefs and ordinary thinking styles in female undergraduates.
MOROI, Katsuhide   +17 more
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Review of Girls in Contemporary Vampire Fiction

open access: yesInternational Journal of Young Adult Literature, 2022
Bill Hughes
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The Simpsons did it: Exploring the film trope space and its large scale structure. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One, 2021
García-Sánchez P   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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