tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post4045468316439998989..comments2024-03-26T01:10:13.720+00:00Comments on Teach Me Tonight: Romance DissertationsE. M. Selingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426524354823232002noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-1492772399793780002009-03-20T19:41:00.000+00:002009-03-20T19:41:00.000+00:00Great! I'm looking forward to hearing about it. Yo...Great! I'm looking forward to hearing about it. You should have got an email from Eric about blogging, but if you haven't, you can email either of us. I've got a contact form <A HREF="http://www.vivanco.me.uk/contact" REL="nofollow">on my website</A>.Laura Vivancohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906661869372622821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-51321556280044833702009-03-20T17:33:00.000+00:002009-03-20T17:33:00.000+00:00I'd love to blog about what comes up at ACLA once ...I'd love to blog about what comes up at ACLA once I get back. Stay tuned...<BR/>Cheers!In/Voluntary Exilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05527480862872195839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-23723193171705306912009-03-17T17:39:00.000+00:002009-03-17T17:39:00.000+00:00I see you're presenting a paper on “The Romance Ca...I see you're presenting a paper on “The Romance Carnival: Sexual and Racial Diversity in Paranormal Romance Novels.” Would you like to write a blog post for TMT about that and any other papers at ACLA which are about the modern romance genre? Not many of <A HREF="http://www.acla.org/acla2009/?p=119" REL="nofollow">these ones</A> give the impression that they are, but nonetheless I suppose quite a few might bring up things which are also relevant to thinking about the modern genre.<BR/><BR/><I>my bent for Marxist theory</I><BR/><BR/>That's probably quite a useful background to have, given the number of millionaires/billionaires in contemporaries and aristocrats in historicals, not to mention the fact that romance publishing is an industry and, moreover, one that seems to <A HREF="http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2009/03/17/harlequin-shows-solid-2008-results/" REL="nofollow">carry on making a profit</A> even during times when other areas of publishing aren't doing so well.Laura Vivancohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906661869372622821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-45755209831846013092009-03-16T21:13:00.000+00:002009-03-16T21:13:00.000+00:00Romance fiction is my primary theoretical preoccup...Romance fiction is my primary theoretical preoccupation and I plan of working on it in some form or another for the foreseeable future. I'll be presenting on race and romance at ACLA in a week or so, and at PCA, of course. I'm slowly inching my way into the poetics but it's taking me time to adapt my Cultural studies training (and my bent for Marxist theory) to it.<BR/>Cheers!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-80355536763801838932009-03-12T11:21:00.000+00:002009-03-12T11:21:00.000+00:00Thanks very much for the clarification, Jayashree....Thanks very much for the clarification, Jayashree. Are you carrying on with your work on the genre? And if so, would you be going in the direction of the poetics?Laura Vivancohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906661869372622821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-10664263980561027942009-03-10T15:39:00.000+00:002009-03-10T15:39:00.000+00:00Thanks to both of you for taking the time to look ...Thanks to both of you for taking the time to look at my work.<BR/> Laura, you're closer to the mark about my interest in "quandaries related to societal preoccupations." I would have loved to get into the poetics (or prosaics, as Bakhtin might say) of romance fiction. But I figured that's for another day.In/Voluntary Exilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05527480862872195839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-85486758650852996482009-03-10T12:38:00.000+00:002009-03-10T12:38:00.000+00:00"romance fiction is not fixated on a clichéd plot ...<I>"romance fiction is not fixated on a clichéd plot and descriptions of sexual intercourse; it involves complex themes that are disguised as stereotypical genre elements."</I><BR/><BR/>Jessica, I think the way Jayashree Kamble phrased that leaves it unclear who or what is active in creating the disguise, as well as leaving open the question of whether or not there are groups of people who see through the disguise.<BR/><BR/>It may be, given that the previous sentences discuss the covers and dust-jacket copy, that she thinks these elements disguise the contents, or perhaps more specifically, that they disguise the contents for non-romance readers, even though they don't do that for the romance readers, who find that the genre "engages them in addressing quandaries related to societal preoccupations."<BR/><BR/>I also have the impression that the focus of the thesis is on analysing how the genre addresses "quandaries related to societal preoccupations" rather than looking at "the literary aspects of romance."<BR/><BR/>I've downloaded it and have started reading it, but I haven't wanted to rush through it, so I've not got very far through it yet.Laura Vivancohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906661869372622821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30203557.post-44230492489616998202009-03-10T12:04:00.000+00:002009-03-10T12:04:00.000+00:00The second one in particular interests me, especia...The second one in particular interests me, especially the "implied?) claim that the literary aspects of romance have to be disguised as stereotypical genre conventions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com