Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance write by Amy Burge. This book was released on 2017-02-14. Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book, the first full-length cross-period comparison of medieval and modern literature, offers cutting edge research into the textual and cultural legacy of the Middle Ages: a significant and growing area of scholarship. At the juncture of literary, cultural and gender studies, and capitalizing on a renewed interest in popular western representations of the Islamic east, this book proffers innovative case studies on representations of cross-religious and cross-cultural romantic relationships in a selection of late medieval and twenty-first century Orientalist popular romances. Comparing the tropes, characterization and settings of these literary phenomena, and focusing on gender, religion, and ethnicity, the study exposes the historical roots of current romance representations of the east, advancing research in Orientalism, (neo)medievalism and medieval cultural studies. Fundamentally, Representing Difference invites a closer look at medieval and modern popular attitudes towards the east, as represented in romance, and the kinds of solutions proposed for its apparent problems.
Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction
Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction write by Hsu-Ming Teo. This book was released on 2024-06-13. Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revise, repurpose and challenge the past in their novels, exposing the extent to which past societies were damaging to women by instead imagining alternative histories. The novelists discussed employ the generic conventions of romance to narrate their understanding of historical and contemporary injustice and to reflect upon women’s achievements and the price they paid for autonomy and a life of public purpose. The volume seeks, firstly, to discuss the work of revision or reparation being performed by romantic historical fiction and, secondly, to analyse how the past is being repurposed for use in the present. It contends that the discourses and genre of romance work to provide a reparative reading of the past, but there are limitations and entrenched problems in such readings.
The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction
The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction write by Jayashree Kamblé. This book was released on 2020-08-11. The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Popular romance fiction constitutes the largest segment of the global book market. Bringing together an international group of scholars, The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction offers a ground-breaking exploration of this global genre and its remarkable readership. In recognition of the diversity of the form, the Companion provides a history of the genre, an overview of disciplinary approaches to studying romance fiction, and critical analyses of important subgenres, themes, and topics. It also highlights new and understudied avenues of inquiry for future research in this vibrant and still-emerging field. The first systematic, comprehensive resource on romance fiction, this Companion will be invaluable to students and scholars, and accessible to romance readers.
Virgin Envy
Virgin Envy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Virgin Envy write by Jonathan A. Allan. This book was released on 2016-11-15. Virgin Envy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Virginity is of concern here, that is its utter messiness. At once valuable and detrimental, normative and deviant, undesirable and enviable. Virginity and its loss hold tremendous cultural significance. For many, female virginity is still a universally accepted condition, something that is somehow bound to the hymen, whereas male virginity is almost as elusive as the G-spot: we know it's there, it’s just we have a harder time finding it. Of course boys are virgins, queers are virgins, some people reclaim their virginities, and others reject virginity from the get go. So what if we agree to forget the hymen all together? Might we start to see the instability of terms like untouched, pure, or innocent? Might we question the act of sex, the very notion of relational sexuality? After all, for many people it is the sexual acts they don’t do, or don’t want to do, that carry the most abundant emotional clout. Virgin Envy is a collection of essays that look past the vestal virgins and beyond Joan of Arc. From medieval to present-day literature, the output of HBO, Bollywood, and the films of Abdellah Taïa or Derek Jarman to the virginity testing of politically active women in Tahrir Square, the writers here explore the concept of virginity in today’s world to show that ultimately virginity is a site around which our most basic beliefs about sexuality are confronted, and from which we can come to understand some of our most basic anxieties, paranoias, fears, and desires.
Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance
Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance write by Lucy M. Allen-Goss. This book was released on 2020. Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of female same-sex desire in Chaucer and medieval romance.
