Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : American fiction
ISBN : OCLC:1392125382
Romance Reader 4
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Romance Reader 4
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Reading the Romance
Janice A. Radway
Author : Janice A. Radway
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807898857
Reading the Romance by Janice A. Radway Pdf
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
Sharon Pywell
Author : Sharon Pywell
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250101747
The Romance Reader's Guide to Life by Sharon Pywell Pdf
"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.
The Romance Readers' Book Club
Julie Cannon
Author : Julie Cannon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0452288991
The Romance Readers' Book Club by Julie Cannon Pdf
CANNON/ROMANCE READERS BOOK CLUB
The Romance Reader
Pearl Abraham
Author : Pearl Abraham
Publisher : Gardners Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0704380390
The Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham Pdf
In one of the most exciting debuts in years, Pearl Abraham--who grew up in a Hasidic community herself--presents the story of Rachel, a girl caught between the strictly controlled world of ultra Orthodox Judaism and the sedictive yearnings of her own heart. Both a coming-of-age story and a brave, beautifully rendered expose of a hidden, insular world . . . heartrending.--Elle.
Pulling Back the Shades
Juli Slattery,Dannah Gresh
Author : Juli Slattery,Dannah Gresh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 080241088X
Pulling Back the Shades by Juli Slattery,Dannah Gresh Pdf
With solid Biblical teaching and transparent stories, trusted authors Dannah Gresh and Dr. Juli Slattery offer an unflinching look at the most personal questions women ask. The book offers practical advice for women to address five core longings: to be cherished by a man, to be protected by a strong man, to rescue a man, to be sexually alive, to escape reality. God designed women with these longings and has a plan to satisfy them. It's time for women to identify their intimate longings and God-honoring ways to fulfill them.
Read On ... Romance
C. L. Quillen,Ilene N. Lefkowitz
Author : C. L. Quillen,Ilene N. Lefkowitz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781610694018
Read On ... Romance by C. L. Quillen,Ilene N. Lefkowitz Pdf
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 Reading Nation in the Romantic Period
William St Clair
Author : William St Clair
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052181006X
The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period by William St Clair Pdf
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Romance Readers and Romance Writers
Christopher Goulding
Author : Christopher Goulding
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317303701
Romance Readers and Romance Writers by Christopher Goulding Pdf
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.
Romance Reader 4
Alyson Ross,Melanie Haywood,Cecil Murphey
Author : Alyson Ross,Melanie Haywood,Cecil Murphey
Publisher : Fleming H. Revell Company
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 0800714415
Romance Reader 4 by Alyson Ross,Melanie Haywood,Cecil Murphey Pdf
Love Like Theirs (The Romance Chronicles—Book #4)
Sophie Love
Author : Sophie Love
Publisher : Sophie Love
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781640292727
Love Like Theirs (The Romance Chronicles—Book #4) by Sophie Love Pdf
“LOVE LIKE THIS creates a world of emotions and turmoil, describing superbly the mind of a young lady (Keira) and her struggles to balance her social life and her career. Sophie Love is a natural storyteller. LOVE LIKE THIS is very well written and edited, and I highly recommend it to the permanent library of all readers that appreciate a romance that can be savored during a weekend.” --Books and Movie Reviews (Roberto Mattos) LOVE LIKE THEIRS (The Romance Chronicles—Book #4) is book #4 in a new, sweet romance series by #1 bestselling author Sophie Love. The series begins with LOVE LIKE THIS (Book #1), a free download! Keira Swanson, 28, has sworn off of love. With her heart still hurting from her breakups with Cristiano and Shane, she will not allow her magazine to use her for another love experiment. Which is fine by them, because they want to send her off on a different kind of trip: to prove that someone suffering from a breakup can avoid a knee-jerk rebound affair and manage NOT to fall in love. To emphasize the point, they will NOT assign her a new tour guide. Instead, Keira will take a cruise to the Scandinavian countries and have to navigate herself. Keira is thrilled to accept the assignment. There is nothing she wants more than to be alone, and go to the Northern climes, where she can cool her head, and where surely she will not find love. But Keira does not anticipate the beauty of Copenhagen and of Stockholm (“the Paris of the North”) or the stunning hospitality of the Scandinavians. With Christmas on the way, resisting a new love may be harder than she thinks…. A wholesome romantic comedy that is as profound as it is funny, LOVE LIKE THEIRS is book #4 in a dazzling new romance series that will make you laugh, cry, and will keep you turning pages late into the night—and will make you fall in love with romance all over again. Book #5 is also now available! “Sophie Love's ability to impart magic to her readers is exquisitely wrought in powerfully evocative phrases and descriptions….[This is] the perfect romance or beach read, with a difference: its enthusiasm and beautiful descriptions offer an unexpected attention to the complexity of not just evolving love, but evolving psyches. It's a delightful recommendation for romance readers looking for a touch more complexity from their romance reads.” --Midwest Book Review (Diane Donovan re: For Now and Forever)
Reading Popular Romance in Early Modern England
Lori Humphrey Newcomb
Author : Lori Humphrey Newcomb
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0231123787
Reading Popular Romance in Early Modern England by Lori Humphrey Newcomb Pdf
This volume examines the proliferation of popular romances, their vilification by elite writers, and the ultimate opposition of "popular" and "literary" fiction. Using Robert Greene's "Pandosto" (1585), an Elizabethan prose romance that inspired Shakespeare's late play "The Winter's Tale" as a case study, Newcomb demonstrates that versions of the two texts repeatedly converge, resisting simple high/low division. Because Shakespeare's works are considered timeless literary achievements, critics have distanced his plays from their romance sources--a separation that until now has gone largely unquestioned. Newcomb challenges this assumption, providing a fascinating account of an early best-seller's incarnations over 250 years of literary history.
Reading Romantic Poetry
Fiona Stafford
Author : Fiona Stafford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118773000
Reading Romantic Poetry by Fiona Stafford Pdf
Reading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes and preoccupations, and the key poems and players of a period convulsed by revolution, prolonged warfare and political crisis. Provides a clear, lively introduction to Romantic Poetry, backed by academic research and marked by its accessibility to students with little prior experience of poetry Introduces many of the major topics of the age, from politics to publishing, from slavery to sociability, from Milton to the mind of man Encourages direct responses to poems by opening up different aspects of the literature and fresh approaches to reading Discusses the poets' own reading and experience of being read, as well as analysis of the sounds of key poems and the look of the poem on the page Deepens understanding of poems through awareness of their literary, historical, political and personal contexts Includes the major poets of the period, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Burns and Clare —as well as a host of less familiar writers, including women
Romantic Readers and Transatlantic Travel
Robin Jarvis
Author : Robin Jarvis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317061441
Romantic Readers and Transatlantic Travel by Robin Jarvis Pdf
Why and how did people read literature on North America by explorers, travellers, emigrants, and tourists? This is the central question Robin Jarvis takes up as he addresses a significant gap in scholarship on travel writing: its contemporary reception. Referencing reviews in the periodical press, personal journals, letters, autobiographies, marginalia, and bibliographical evidence relating to the production, distribution, and reception of travel literature, Jarvis focuses especially on the ideas and perceptions of North America expressed by individuals who never visited the subcontinent. Among the issues Jarvis explores are what the British reception of North American travel narratives says about the ways in which the United States was imagined in the Romantic period; how poets such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Felicia Hemans, Robert Southey, and William Wordsworth, all voracious travel readers, incorporated their readings of travel books into their works; and the ways in which the reception of North American travel writing should be contextualized within the broader contours of British society and culture. Significantly, Jarvis differentiates between different communities of readers to show the extent to which class or professional status affected the way travel literature was read. Of equally crucial importance, he discusses the reception of travel literature on Canada and the Arctic as distinct from that on the United States. His book constitutes the most thorough exploration to date of the private reading experiences of travel literature during the Romantic period.
Reading the Adolescent Romance
Amy Pattee
Author : Amy Pattee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136829796
Reading the Adolescent Romance by Amy Pattee Pdf
Reading the Adolescent Romance provides an exhaustive study of the developments in young adult literature since the 1980s with a focus on Francine Pascal’s "Sweet Valley High" series, which has become a cultural and literary touchstone for both fans and critics of the novels. Pattee carefully examines the series’ content, structure, and readers, allowing her to investigate an influential marketing and literary phenomenon and to interrogate the intersecting influences of history, audience positioning, and readability that allowed "Sweet Valley" and other teen series to flourish. This book demonstrates that, as a series of generic romance novels, "Sweet Valley High" exhibits tropes associated with both adolescent and adult romance and, as a product of the early 1980s, has and continues to espouse the conservative romantic ideologies associated with the time period. While erstwhile readers of the series recall the novels with pleasure, re-readers of Pascal’s novels — who remember reading the series as young people and have re-visted the books as adults — are more critical. Interestingly, both populations continue to value "Sweet Valley High" as an identity touchstone. Amy Pattee is an associate professor of library and information science at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. There, she teaches children’s and young adult literature in both the library school and in a dual degree program affiliated with Simmons College’s Center for the Study of Children’s Literature.