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But that brings us around to sappy romance's twisted uncle, or maybe twisted younger brother -- you guessed it, the fan fiction known as ... slash.
Phat Tuesday! 2008
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But that brings us around to sappy romance's twisted uncle, or maybe twisted younger brother -- you guessed it, the fan fiction known as ... slash.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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If you take romance seriously, and don't denigrate it just because patriarchy says you should (more on that, later, too), then you've got to take romance fiction seriously, since it's a major expression is of romance -- not to mention, romance's usual wonderful destinations, love and sex -- in our culture.
Hillary Rettig: The Eroticization of Equality and Social Justice 2009
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All these people are gentlemen of position and consequence; and it is a proud thing to belong to the organization; so the mystery in which they hide their personality is merely for romance's sake, and not on account of the police.
Mark Twain on Mardi Gras Victoria Janssen 2009
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Just a heads up: the incredibly kick-ass music from the "Mr. Romance" Flash animation you posted is from the equally kick-ass Evil Dead sequel, Army of Darkness. michael says, thank you so much for posting siege's link to mr. romance's flash site. sitting at work (i'm at a computer all day) i thought, "there HAS to be more mr. romance to go around." and then i found his myspace page.
Boing Boing 2007
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The romance's main concern is with the orphaned and exiled Havelok and Goldeboru claiming their rights as heirs to inherit the kingdoms of Denmark and England, respectively.
Jane Minogue: A Champagne Toast to the 50 percent Who Stay Married 2009
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This concern with visuality and spectacle was rapidly linked to the Gothic romance's political and generic connections with France.
Article Abstracts 2005
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Gothic romance's luxurious and too-frequent indulgence of the supernatural was quite simply deemed to be an unworthy advocate of the supernatural because of its exhaustive deployment of it as a visual stimulant.
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But I am 93, and there is no possibility of romance's coming to my rescue.
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In both articles, Osborne links Shakespearean allusions to the romance's problematic status as a popular and frequently derided genre; however, the first article relies mostly on literary analysis and authorial testimony, whereas the second pays much more attention to the economics of the romance industry.
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