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Teach Me Tonight: July 2015
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Musings on Romance Fiction from an Academic Perspective. Monday, July 27, 2015. Romance: Reflecting, and Reflecting on, Society. Scott McCracken has observed that. To study popular fiction [.] is to study only a small part of popular culture. Nonetheless, written popular narratives can tell us much about who we are and about the society in which we live. [.] Popular fiction is both created by and a participant in social conflict. (1-2). There was what could almost be considered a parallel RWA conference,.
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Teach Me Tonight: CFP: "Asking For It: Discussions of Consent and Sexual Violence"
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Musings on Romance Fiction from an Academic Perspective. Monday, June 08, 2015. CFP: "Asking For It: Discussions of Consent and Sexual Violence". In light of some recent discussions of rape, rape fantasy, empathy, and romance at Dear Author. And Olivia Waite's eponymous blog. I thought this CFP for a book project called Asking For It: Discussions of Consent and Sexual Violence. NOTE: Given the reviews out today (June 15, 2015) of. Lilah Pace's new erotic novel Asking for It. Joshua Stein, ed. At the star...
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Teach Me Tonight: Noted with Interest: Twilight of the Gothic (1)
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Musings on Romance Fiction from an Academic Perspective. Monday, June 15, 2015. Noted with Interest: Twilight of the Gothic (1). Noted with interest, these passages from Joseph Crawford's very impressive monograph The Twilight of the Gothic? Vampire Fiction and the Rise of the Paranormal Romance. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2014; distributed in the US by U Chicago P. Page number precedes the quotation; a slash mark (/) mid-quotation marks a page break. 2003) in some interesting ways:. 9: [Crawfor...
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Teach Me Tonight: Forthcoming Conferences
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Musings on Romance Fiction from an Academic Perspective. 6-9 October - Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, Chicago, IL (see the romance area cfp. 12-15 April - Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, San Diego, California. (see the romance area cfp. 28-30 June - Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ), Wellington, New Zealand. (see the cfp. IASPR's Seventh International Conference in Sydney, Australia. Nora Roberts Cen...
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Teach Me Tonight: PCA Romance Area Call for Papers
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Musings on Romance Fiction from an Academic Perspective. Wednesday, June 10, 2015. PCA Romance Area Call for Papers. All Proposals and Abstracts Must Be Submitted Through The PCA Database. Please submit a proposal to only one area at a time. Exceptions and rules. Conference of the Popular and American Culture Association (PCA/ACA). March 21-25, 2016 – Seattle, WA. Please note that you do not. Some possible topics for Romance (although we are by no means limited to these):. Romance Around the Pacific Rim:...
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Teach Me Tonight: Noted with Interest: Twilight of the Gothic (3)
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Musings on Romance Fiction from an Academic Perspective. Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Noted with Interest: Twilight of the Gothic (3). Draws a useful distinction, I think, between our retrospectively constructed pre-history of genres (conceived of as characteristic themes and topics and plots) and a more historically-aware account of genres as existing not just between the covers of books (as themes and topics and plots) but also, and crucially, as paratextual and epitextual phenomena:. 24 June, 2015 22:28.
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Teach Me Tonight: August 2015
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Musings on Romance Fiction from an Academic Perspective. Sunday, August 30, 2015. New Issue of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies. Journal of Popular Romance Studies. Started publishing almost exactly five years ago: August 4, 2010" ( Selinger. And Issue 5.1. Is now available, for free, online. Special Issue: Romancing the Library (Editor’s Introduction). A Matter of Meta: Category Romance Fiction and the Interplay of Paratext and Library Metadata - by Vassiliki Veros. By Sangita Gopal;. The Problem ...
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Teach Me Tonight: Eric's Erotic Encyclopedia Entry
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Musings on Romance Fiction from an Academic Perspective. Saturday, May 09, 2015. Eric's Erotic Encyclopedia Entry. The new/forthcoming International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality. Includes an article on romance fiction by Eric. Here's the abstract:. A love story with a happy ending, the romance novel is as old as the form of the novel itself. The modern romance novel emerged with Samuel Richardson's. 2015 325–368. [ Abstract from here. Posted by Laura Vivanco. Saturday, May 09, 2015. Laura Vivanco, 2016.
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Teach Me Tonight: Reading Radway Reading the Romance
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Musings on Romance Fiction from an Academic Perspective. Saturday, March 06, 2010. Reading Radway Reading the Romance. On page 5 of her new (1992) introduction to Reading the Romance. Radway acknowledged that "even what I took to be simple descriptions of my interviewees' self-understandings were mediated if not produced by my own conceptual constructs and ways of seeing the world" (5). Furthermore, she observes that. Bearing all this in mind, when Radway writes that she was. Struck by the urgency, indee...
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Teach Me Tonight: June 2015
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Musings on Romance Fiction from an Academic Perspective. Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Noted with Interest: Twilight of the Gothic (3). Draws a useful distinction, I think, between our retrospectively constructed pre-history of genres (conceived of as characteristic themes and topics and plots) and a more historically-aware account of genres as existing not just between the covers of books (as themes and topics and plots) but also, and crucially, as paratextual and epitextual phenomena:. Monday, June 22, 2015.
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