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Reading The Romance
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Author : Janice A. Radway
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2009-11-18
Reading The Romance written by Janice A. Radway and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-18 with Social Science categories.
Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's most lucrative categories, captivates millions of women readers. Among those who have disparaged romance reading are feminists, literary critics, and theorists of mass culture. They claim that romances enforce the woman reader's dependence on men and acceptance of the repressive ideology purveyed by popular culture. Radway questions such claims, arguing that critical attention "must shift from the text itself, taken in isolation, to the complex social event of reading." She examines that event, from the complicated business of publishing and distribution to the individual reader's engagement with the text. Radway's provocative approach combines reader-response criticism with anthropology and feminist psychology. Asking readers themselves to explore their reading motives, habits, and rewards, she conducted interviews in a midwestern town with forty-two romance readers whom she met through Dorothy Evans, a chain bookstore employee who has earned a reputation as an expert on romantic fiction. Evans defends her customers' choice of entertainment; reading romances, she tells Radway, is no more harmful than watching sports on television. "We read books so we won't cry" is the poignant explanation one woman offers for her reading habit. Indeed, Radway found that while the women she studied devote themselves to nurturing their families, these wives and mothers receive insufficient devotion or nurturance in return. In romances the women find not only escape from the demanding and often tiresome routines of their lives but also a hero who supplies the tenderness and admiring attention that they have learned not to expect. The heroines admired by Radway's group defy the expected stereotypes; they are strong, independent, and intelligent. That such characters often find themselves to be victims of male aggression and almost always resign themselves to accepting conventional roles in life has less to do, Radway argues, with the women readers' fantasies and choices than with their need to deal with a fear of masculine dominance. These romance readers resent not only the limited choices in their own lives but the patronizing atitude that men especially express toward their reading tastes. In fact, women read romances both to protest and to escape temporarily the narrowly defined role prescribed for them by a patriarchal culture. Paradoxically, the books that they read make conventional roles for women seem desirable. It is this complex relationship between culture, text, and woman reader that Radway urges feminists to address. Romance readers, she argues, should be encouraged to deliver their protests in the arena of actual social relations rather than to act them out in the solitude of the imagination. In a new introduction, Janice Radway places the book within the context of current scholarship and offers both an explanation and critique of the study's limitations.
The Romance Reader S Guide To Life
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Author : Sharon Pywell
language : en
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Release Date : 2017-04-04
The Romance Reader S Guide To Life written by Sharon Pywell and has been published by Flatiron Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-04 with Fiction categories.
"Smart, funny, and compulsively readable." --Kirkus (starred review) As a young girl, Neave was often stuck in a world that didn’t know what to do with her. As her mother not unkindly told her, she was never going to grow up to be a great beauty. Her glamorous sister, Lilly, moved easily through the world, a parade of handsome men in pursuit. Her brother didn’t want a girl joining his group of friends. And their small town of Lynn, Massachusetts, didn’t have a place for a girl whose feelings often put her at war with the world -- often this meant her mother, her brother, and the town librarian who wanted to keep her away from the Dangerous Books she really wanted to read. But through an unexpected friendship, Neave finds herself with a forbidden copy of The Pirate Lover, a steamy romance, and Neave discovers a world of passion, love, and betrayal. And it is to this world that as a grown up she retreats to again and again when real life becomes too much. Neave finds herself rereading The Pirate Lover more than she ever would have expected because as she gets older, life does not follow the romances she gobbled up as a child. When Neave and Lilly are about to realize their professional dream, Lilly suddenly disappears. Neave must put her beloved books down and take center stage, something she has been running from her entire life. And she must figure out what happened to Lilly – and if she’s next. Who Neave turns to help her makes Sharon Pywell's The Romance Reader's Guide to Life one of the most original, entertaining, exciting, and chilling novels you will read this year.
Read On Romance
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Author : C. L. Quillen
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2014-06-18
Read On Romance written by C. L. Quillen and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
With thousands of romance novels published each year, librarians—especially those unfamiliar with or indifferent to the genre—can benefit from this well-organized, reference that offers scores of appeals-based read-alike lists for some of the most popular, contemporary romance fiction. As romance publishing continues to flourish, readers and readers' advisors are faced with increasingly complex reading choices. This book helps adult and teen readers quickly find the books they love to read, identifies other titles with shared qualities for more reading suggestions, and provides librarians with carefully reviewed read-alike lists that they can use with confidence. Featuring romance novels published from 2000 to the present day, this useful guide offers you hundreds of reading suggestions covering a wide variety of themes from the most popular to the more obscure. Library professionals and romance fans C. L. Quillen and Ilene Lefkowitz use informal and sometimes whimsical terminology to create unique thematic lists that are targeted to the way romance readers think, offering such lively categories as "Rx for Love" and "Romancing the Stove." The authors organize the titles into five sections according to language, setting, character, story, and mood. Subgenres covered include historical, regency, paranormal, and romantic suspense, making it simple for you to find recommended titles appropriate for your readers' needs.
The Romance Readers Book Club
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Author : Julie L. Cannon
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2007-12-18
The Romance Readers Book Club written by Julie L. Cannon and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with Fiction categories.
A southern tale of a teenage girl who opens a Pandora’s box of passion and guilt Bored with her sheltered life on the family farm in Rigby, Georgia, fifteen- year-old Tammi Lynn Elco senses things can change when she acquires a stack of forbidden romance novels. Eluding the watchful eye of her Granny Elco, Tammi forms a secret book club with two girlfriends and her eccentric Aunt Minna, reading about weak- in-the- knees passion and sharing their own stories of love and heartache. When Rigby is seized in an economically damaging drought, local preachers are quick to proclaim sin as the reason for the devastation, forcing Tammi and her fellow book club members to come to terms with the emotions they’re feeling and the strict expectations of the community surrounding them. “Dixie Diva” Julie L. Cannon has written a heartfelt coming- of-age tale with true southern flair.
Romance Readers Advisory
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Author : Ann Bouricius
language : en
Publisher: ALA Editions
Release Date : 2000-04
Romance Readers Advisory written by Ann Bouricius and has been published by ALA Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A guide for librarians to the romance novel - how to make the library user friendly for the romance novel reader; increase your understanding of the romance novel and reader; how to become a romance reader advisor.
What Romance Do I Read Next
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Author : Kristin Ramsdell
language : en
Publisher: Gale Cengage
Release Date : 1999
What Romance Do I Read Next written by Kristin Ramsdell and has been published by Gale Cengage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with American fiction categories.
This reader's guide brings together an impressive collection of some of the best recent romantic fiction published between 1989 and 1998. The volume describes and indexes approximately 2,700 romance works.
The Romance Reader S Guide To Life
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Author : Sharon Pywell
language : en
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
Release Date : 2017-07
The Romance Reader S Guide To Life written by Sharon Pywell and has been published by Duckworth Overlook this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07 with categories.
The most entertaining and chilling novel you will read this year, by the acclaimed author Sharon Pywell. Growing up in the shadow of the Second World War, twin sisters Lilly and Neave could not be more different: Lilly is a beauty who runs through men like water, but Neave is a bookworm who would rather read about life than live it. While Lilly is breaking hearts, Neave loses herself in the illicit romance novel The Pirate Lover. As grown women they are expected to settle down and marry, but instead they set their sights on creating their own cosmetics business - that is, until Lilly suddenly disappears... Desperate to find her sister, Neave receives help from the most unlikely of places, proving that the bond between sisters can overcome anything in life - and beyond. A haunting, darkly funny and thrilling tale of sisterhood, showing us that sometimes the guiltiest of pleasures can be our salvation.
Women Readers And The Ideology Of Gender In Old French Verse Romance
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Author : Roberta L. Krueger
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-02-17
Women Readers And The Ideology Of Gender In Old French Verse Romance written by Roberta L. Krueger and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-17 with History categories.
This study challenges the view that all courtly literature promoted the social status of women. Unlike previous books which focused on knights, it starts from the perspective of the woman reader/listener. Using reader-response theory, feminist criticism and recent historical studies, it suggests that romances taught gender roles, often inviting readers to criticise and resist them.
Forever And Ever Romance Structure And Secrets To Make Your Readers Fall In Love With Your Work
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Author : Anaïs Wilde
language : en
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
Release Date : 2018-05-25
Forever And Ever Romance Structure And Secrets To Make Your Readers Fall In Love With Your Work written by Anaïs Wilde and has been published by Babelcube Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-25 with Education categories.
You can write romance. Whereas you're just begining as an author or if you've already written some novels, in this book you'll find all the necessary keys to help you shape that idea you've got in mind. Anaïs Wilde and Lola Fortuna share with you their experience as translators of this genre, authors and teachers of creative writing. This book will help you create characters, plots, to build sexual tension between your main characters and much more. Finally, when you get to the editing phase you'll learn how to spot and solve those little problems that might be stealing from your novel all the shine it really has. Everything you need to successfully go from the first spak or an idea to wrapping it up.
Romance Readers And Romance Writers
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Author : Christopher Goulding
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-09-30
Romance Readers And Romance Writers written by Christopher Goulding and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
This edition of Romance Readers and Romance Writers (1810) is the first modern scholarly publication of what is arguably Green's most famous novel. As with many of her other works, Green adopts numerous sophisticated methods to parody her contemporaries.