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Laura Vivanco. As a follow-up to my post about developments in romance publishing in India, in which I also mentioned African-American roman...

Laura Vivanco . There are plenty of open source academic journals (including JPRS , of course), and I've seen free repositories for dis...

Laura Vivanco. The Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ) will be launching its own journal this year: The Aus...

Laura Vivanco Kate Hewitt left an interesting comment in response to my last post: the bottom line seems, to me, to be that we want the cha...

Laura Vivanco In the UK Mills & Boon has created a new line : "Launching in January 2011, Riva is a vibrant, exciting new stream of...

Jonathan A. Allan Canadian literary critic, Northrop Frye (1912-1991) remains a preeminent voice in literary criticism and has found – or,...

Laura Vivanco I happened to be reading an article by Umberto Eco which has nothing to do with romance when I came across the following, abou...

Laura Vivanco Over the holidays I'm going to be taking a break from blogging so I thought I'd leave you with a suitably wintry story...

Jonathan A. Allan When I came to study "Romance," it was because of Northrop Frye's The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Stru...

Laura Vivanco Misconceptions about Scotland and the Scots seem rather common in the romance genre. This recent post , written by one Scottis...

Sarah S. G. Frantz Final Calls for the Romance Area at PCA 2011 and for IASPR 2011 in New York City (just before RWA's conference). PCA...

Laura Vivanco Lynne Hapgood, in her Margins of Desire: The Suburbs in Fiction and Culture 1880-1925 , writes that Popular fiction and in par...