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November 21, 2009 | Saturday | 22 Comments
In an article about the allure of love potentially gone bad titled Why We Love It When Love Bites, NY Daily News Entertainment Editor Olivia Smith takes a look at romance, New Moon, and why so many people are drawn to tales of Love Gone So Freaking Wrong. She quotes Dr. Eric Selinger, who gives a brief but compelling analysis of what makes the Twilight series so compelling from a structural standpoint: An idealized, unconsummated romance like Edward and Bella’s, he says, falls in the tradition of Eros, which dates back at least to the Greek poet Sappho in the…
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March 28, 2009 | Saturday | 6 Comments
Smack in the middle of RT, I’m flying up to Princeton to take part in a closing plenary at the Love as the Practice of Freedom? Romance Fiction and American Culture conference. Check out the schedule. No, specifically, the plenary I’m on: 5:30-6:30 Closing Roundtable: Romance Reads the Academy * Michelle Buonfiglio, blogger and reviewer (Romance: B(u)y the Book) * Sarah Wendell, blogger and reviewer (Smart Bitches, Trashy Books) * Diane Pershing, romance author, President, Romance Writers of America (2008-2009) * Monica Jackson, author, paranormal romance; contributor to “Blogging in Black” and other author websites…
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June 03, 2008 | Tuesday | 5 Comments
Instead of a Call for Papers, it’s a Call for People from the Professors Brilliant over at Teach Me Tonight: It is time for an academic society for the study of popular romance fiction, with all the rights and privileges appertaining thereunto, like a journal and conferences. So we have decided to start one! The society will be called The International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR) and the journal will be an online, open-source journal called The Journal of Popular Romance Studies (JPRS). So, we’re looking for people who might be interested in helping us build these…
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