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CONTENT [WITHOUT] WARNING: A COMPARATIVE CONTENT ANALYSIS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE SCENES IN PARANORMAL AND REALISTIC YOUNG ADULT ROMANCE NOVELS

open access: yes, 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 ...
Palmer, Margaret
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Gender and sexuality in paranormal romance : the postfeminist agenda of contemporary vampire narratives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Since the mid-2000s, American popular culture has fallen under the reign of the vampire, and the bloodsucker is only slowly releasing its grip. In particular, recent years have seen the expansion of a massive vampire romance industry. By tracing the connections between three recent vampire romance series possessing tremendous discursive and ideological
Gerhards, Lea
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"Romancing the corpse": an examination of the representations of zombies in young adult paranormal romance

open access: yes, 2015
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.
Nyssa L. Harkness (12299603)
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Dangerous Young Men: Themes of Female Sexuality and Masculinity in Paranormal Romance Novels for Young Adults

open access: yes, 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).
Russell, Shannon
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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 ...
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Full Moon Masculinities: Masculine Werewolves, Emotional Repression, and Violence in Young Adult Paranormal Romance Fiction

Gothic Studies, 2019
Gothic monsters have recently experienced a period of focused scholarly analysis, although few studies have engaged with the werewolf in terms of its overt alignment with masculinity. Yet the werewolves of young adult fantasy fiction both support and subvert dominant masculine discourses through their complex negotiation with emotional repression and ...
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Monsters In My Bed: Accounting For The Popularity Of Young Adult Paranormal Romances

2013
Using textual analysis of 49 young adult paranormal romances, I answer what it is about the cultural milieu that makes these novels popular right now? This thesis argues that the discourse which emerges from the novels reflects contemporary discourse and narrative about the girls and young women who read the genre and who place themselves within this ...
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