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Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture : Romancing the Other

open access: yes, 2020
Book Description: Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other explores the varied representations of Otherness in romance novels and other fiction with strong romantic plots.
Ramos-Garcia, Maria T., Vivanco, Laura
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Taming the Perfect Beast: The Monster as Romantic Hero in Contemporary Fiction

open access: yes, 2014
This thesis examines the contemporary phenomenon of the paranormal romance, as exemplified by Stephenie Meyer\u27s Twilight series. Although immensely popular, the series has drawn harsh criticism for its writing style and for the sexual politics ...
Klaber, Lara
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Pornography and Rape Myths in Paranormal Romance Novels

open access: yes, 2012
A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Lesley Erin Dennis in July of ...
Dennis, Lesley Erin
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Podcasting Books Bibliography

open access: yes
This list includes twelve books with podcast themes ranging from true crime to paranormal to romance, there’s a book for every ...
McGregor, Janine
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Blood, tears, and sweat: An intersectional excavation of the literary vampire in neoliberal discourse

open access: yes, 2014
This project engages in a critical examination of the figure of the sympathetic vampire in paranormal romance novels and its relationship to neoliberal individualism, using an analytic frame informed by Valerie Smith\u27s conceptualization of black ...
Birch, Jessica Elizabeth
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The Dead Romantics

open access: yes
Different from the basic contemporary novels like Emily Henry\u27s Beach Read, The Dead Romantics uses paranormal elements including ghosts to provide a more interesting plot while keeping with the Beach Read style of writing.
Poston, Ashley
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Paranormal Politics and the Romance of Urban Subcultures: Youth Mobility in Cassandra Clare’s and Melissa Marr’s Fantasy Texts

open access: yesJeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, 2016
This essay examines the political and social significance of the intrusion of the supernatural into youth subcultures in two urban fantasy series: Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments and Melissa Marr’s Wicked Lovely. Both series represent the idea of human youth mobility and social affiliation based on volition. The tolerant urban spaces through which
Leonie Rutherford   +2 more
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