Cultural Authenticity, the Family, and East Asian American Romance Novels by Hsu-Ming Teo

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L'urlo. Del furor destructor a la afirmación de sí by Anne-Cécile Druet - Francesco Ardolino

Subjects: “…scream; contemporary romance literatures;comparative literature;litera-ture written by women;isabella santacroce.…”
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Critical Approaches to the Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Romance Novel (From A Room with a View to Fifty Shades of Grey) by Francesca Pierini

Subjects: “…contemporary romance…”
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Asexual Romance in an Allosexual World: How Ace-Spectrum Characters (and Authors) Create Space for Romantic Love by Ellen Carter

“…Recent years have seen a surge in contemporary romance novels with ace-spectrum main characters who, despite not experiencing sexual attraction, still yearn for romantic and emotional connection and their happily ever after (HEA). …”
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Getting a Good Man to Love: Popular Romance Fiction and the Problem of Patriarchy by Catherine Roach

“…The story of romance is the most powerful narrative in Western art and culture, sharing roots with Christianity and functioning as a mythic story about the meaning and purpose of life, particularly in regards to the HEA ending of redemption and wholeness. Contemporary romance novels are popular because this religious nature of the romance narrative allows them to do deep work for the (mostly) women who read them, engaging readers in a reparation fantasy of healing in regards to male-female relations. …”
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“And he absolutely fascinated me”: Masculinity and Virginity in Sherilee Gray’s Breaking Him by Jonathan A. Allan

“…This article considers the figure of the male virgin in Sherilee Gray’s Breaking Him, an erotic contemporary romance novel. In particular, this article considers the ways in which the novel works to maintain the hero’s masculinity, while also considering how the novel challenges masculinity. …”
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Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies by Katherine E. Lynch, Ruth E. Sternglantz, Len Barot

“…After exploring the foundations of the lesbian romance novel, we demonstrate that, increasingly, the quest of the queer female hero of a contemporary romance is not to achieve acceptance by resolving the attributes that render her queer, but rather to mobilize her queerness as a source of power. …”
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Reorganização de saberes tradicionais em Los sorias, de Alberto Laiseca by Graciela Ravetti

“…</p> <p><strong>Keywords: </strong>Argentine literature; contemporary romance, science fiction, Spanish American literature.…”
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Superwomen, Latte Dads and Feminist Alphas: Negotiations on Feminism in Contemporary Swedish Popular Romance Novels by Elin Abrahamsson

“…For this article I analyze a selection of Swedish contemporary romance novels, released between 2014-2019. …”
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Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries by Chiho Nakagawa

“…Twilight ends with a fairytale ending free from worries and responsibilities, while Sookie of the Southern Vampire Mysteries realizes that her safe hero is not safe after all, and that she has to reconsider her perception of sexuality and self in order to negotiate the risk of contemporary romance.…”
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‘Ffylle the cuppe and make vs mery’: lobed drinking-vessels and their use in later Medieval England by Standley, E

“…This article examines ceramic lobed vessels and the wider contexts in which they may have been used for communal drinking. 14th- and 15th-century archaeological evidence is explored alongside documentary sources and contemporary romance stories which illuminate drinking rituals in domestic settings. …”

Self-mutilation in Uma Duas, by Eliane Brum by Ana Carla da Silva Lima, Miguel Heitor Braga Vieira

“…Therefore, used as theorical reference, mainly, Hutcheon (1991), Agamben (2007), Rancière (2017) and Perrone-Moisés (2016), about the contemporary romance, and Slavoj Žižek (2014), which refers to the violence studies about the Lacanian materialism perspective.…”
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Olive Skin, Chocolate Eyes: The Legacy of The Sheik on Descriptive Patterns of the Italian Romantic Hero in Harlequin Short Contemporaries by Francesca Pierini

“…Not only literary but discursive at large, this perspective has penetrated different cultural/artistic contexts, including that of Anglophone contemporary romance and its sub-genres. This essay focuses on recent Harlequin short contemporaries and argues that, within this category, the Italian male hero serves as the designated indicator of otherness, in its positive as well as its negative aspects. …”
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FIND ME / by Aciman, Andre, author 647181

“…Find Me brings us back inside the magic circle of one of our greatest contemporary romances to ask if, in fact, true love ever dies.…”

Unraveling conflict amongst Muslim female characters in Malay chick lit by Abu Ujum, Diana, Mohd Jan, Jariah

“…Muslim and Malay women writers from Malaysia who publish contemporary romances, better known as Malay chick lit (sharing similar lucrativeness to Western chick lit), would be hard-pressed to call their work significantly dramatic or expressing a specific brand of literariness to be included in highbrow Malay literature. …”

How Damsels Love: The Transgressive Pleasure of Romance by Renata E. Ntelia

“…In this article, I look at contemporary romances as a source of transgressive pleasure that may inspire its audience to reject patriarchy. …”
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