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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807746703321

Autore

Vivanco Laura

Titolo

For love and money [[electronic resource] ] : the literary art of the Harlequin Mills & Boon romance / / Laura Vivanco

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tirril [England] ; ; Penrith, Calif., : Humanities - Ebooks.co.uk, 2011

ISBN

1-280-67741-4

9786613654342

1-84760-195-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

Genre fiction monographs

Disciplina

808.8385

Soggetti

Popular literature - History and criticism

Fiction - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Licence and Use""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1. Mimetic Modes""; ""Myth""; ""The Romance Mode""; ""The High-Mimetic Mode""; ""The Low-Mimetic Mode""; ""The Ironic Mode""; ""Determining Mode""; ""Realism: Settings and Details""; ""Realism and the Happy Ending""; ""Realism: Issues""; ""Variations Within a Single Mode""; ""Modal Counterpoint""; ""Chapter 2. Mythoi""; ""Mythoi and Modes""; ""High Mimetic""; ""Low Mimetic""; ""Ironic""; ""Adapting Mythoi""; ""Chapter 3. Metafiction""

""Defending Romance and its Readers""""Claiming Kinship with Classics""; ""Romance as Part of Popular Culture""; ""Chapter 4. Metaphors""; ""Building a Relationship""; ""The Flowering of Romance""; ""Woman as Garden""; ""Woman as Flower""; ""The Hunt of Love""; ""Love is a Journey: Marion Lennox�s Princess of Convenience (2005)""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Harlequin Mills & Boon Romances""; ""Other Texts Cited""; ""A Note on the Author""; ""Humanities-Ebooks""