Olive Skin, Chocolate Eyes: The Legacy of The Sheik on Descriptive Patterns of the Italian Romantic Hero in Harlequin Short Contemporaries

Olive Skin, Chocolate Eyes: The Legacy of The Sheik on Descriptive Patterns of the Italian Romantic Hero in Harlequin Short Contemporaries

A dominant descriptive pattern of the Anglo-Italian encounter in modern and contemporary Anglophone fiction has been focusing on representing Italy as a unique constellation of counter-values to Anglo-American culture and its ethos. This tradition can be characterized as a discursive formation reite...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Francesca Pierini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR) 2020-12-01
Series:Journal of Popular Romance Studies
Subjects:
category romance fiction
exoticism
italy
masculinity
orientalism
the sheik
Online Access:https://www.jprstudies.org/2020/12/olive-skin-chocolate-eyes-the-legacy-of-the-sheik-on-descriptive-patterns-of-the-italian-romantic-hero-in-harlequin-short-contemporaries/

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