Essays about: "Contemporary Romance"

Found 5 essays containing the words Contemporary Romance.

  1. 1. Male nostalgia is a dead teenage girl : The romantic nostalgia of idealized traumatic female adolescence in Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Tova Hirsch; [2020]
    Keywords : Teenage girls; female adolescence; nostalgia; perfect femininity; Sofia Coppola; girlhood; female trauma;

    Abstract : The historic portrayal of the teenage girl in cinema as a mythical, sexual, hyper feminine and contemporary creature makes way for a specific but fairly common trope. Namely a trope where the teenage girl is used to elicit nostalgia and romance for the male protagonist, specifically because of her trauma and pain. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Notebook and the Romance Genre : An Investigation of The Notebook As A Romance Novel

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Ajla Kapic; [2019]
    Keywords : Characterization; Romance Elements; Literature; Love Story; Novel; Romance; Contemporary Romance; The Notebook; Nicholas Sparks;

    Abstract : Critics and readers often consider Nicholas Sparks’ novel The Notebook to be a romance novel, while Sparks himself considers it a love story. Sparks claims that there are no similarities between the two genres. READ MORE

  4. 3. Love and Its Discontents : An Analysis of How Gender and Love are Portrayed in The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

    Author : Marcus Lund; [2019]
    Keywords : Science fiction; gender; disability; heterosexual matrix; intersectionality; heteronormativity;

    Abstract : This essay aims to analyze how The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (2014) by Becky Chambers differs from a majority of science fiction novels regarding its depiction of gender and love. The theoretical approach used is gender studies and heteronormativity, with a focus on Judith Butler’s heterosexual matrix, and Dorthe Staunes’ definition of intersectionality. READ MORE

  5. 4. Re-Imagining the Victorian Woman: Female Representations in Four Neo-Victorian Novels from 1990 to 2010

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Author : Guðrún Valdimarsdóttir; [2015]
    Keywords : optimism.; nostalgia; authorship; fictional autobiography; Women s writing; Sexuality; Morgan; Starling; Byatt; Waters; Women in fiction; Historical fiction; Fiction; Neo-Victorianism; Neo-Victorian; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Neo-Victorian literature is a subgenre of historical fiction that is set during the reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 until 1901. There are divergent opinions on the emergence of the genre; however, the time frame established in this dissertation spans from 1990 until the present moment. READ MORE

  6. 5. Vampire Ethics in the Twilight Saga : A Generic Analysis

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Taliah Pollack; [2015]
    Keywords : Twilight; Byronic hero; Genre; Stephenie Meyer; Vampires; Vampire history; Vampire literature; Vampire films; Vampire ethics; Sex; Religion; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Since the Twilight series publication and later the Twilight Saga film adaptions, the vampire romance of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen has turned into a worldwide phenomenon. This One-Year Master’s degree thesis will address the way in which the vampire ethics is depicted in the Twilight Saga by the character of Edward Cullen. READ MORE