Romance novels

When E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy hit the shelves in 2012, women flocked to the nearest bookstore to get their hands on the risqué romantic novels. While some of the readers loved the novel others hated it, specifically criticizing the books for their poor literary content and naughty manner. Based on my analysis of the fans of Fifty Shades of Grey, I will demonstrate how fans have popularly engaged in textual poaching through writing fan fiction through several blogs and forums, specifically

generally takes on a story line concerning modern day teenagers facing the issues of the current times. This genre of novels is normally seen as more appealing to teenage girls because of the constant presentation and treatment of romance and death as topics of choice for authors of the genre. Two notable authors in this genre are John Green and Jodi Picoult, the authors of the two novels of exploration: The Fault in Our Stars and My Sister’s Keeper, respectively. The contemporary young adult fiction

The Power of The Sea-Wolf Jack London’s novel, The Sea-Wolf, has many different interpretations. The story can be read as a combination of the naturalistic novel and the sentimental romance, both very popular around the turn of the century. London also brings into play literary naturalism, in which human beings are characterized as just another species in nature, subject to all of Her cosmic forces. The Sea-Wolf fits almost perfectly the archetypal pattern of an initiation story. Depth and

essence of My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin is centred on the relationships and interactions of Sybylla Melvyn (the key character of the novel), towards other characters. The ways in which she reacts to different people and why she reacts in a particular manner, are perhaps more crucial and intriguing to the reader, than any distinct event throughout the novel.  Sybylla's logic and thinking about herself, others and life, have been moulded by her very influential relationships with her mother and

Love is, in Fact, a Closed Door (A discussion of the theme of love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream) Romance can be found in a myriad of oeuvres. Since the beginning of the written word, it has appeared as a theme in countless novels, theatrical performances, and poems. Some of the most popular stories from ancient Greece are those about love. A prime example of this would be the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice. In this rather romantic story, Orpheus, a talented Thracian musician, marries the love of

Romance, drama: these terms that feature in the earliest reviews of the novel signal that the generic make-up of Wuthering heights was at issue from the start. Wuthering heights from is often described as a hybrid and crossover novel. A crossover novel and Hybrid novels are novels which cross the boundaries between literary genres, such as break down the boundaries between fiction, poetry, and drama (Christin, Routledge Encyclopaedia of Narrative Theory, p.227). Wuthering heights draws on numerous

Romance and tragedy are two general components of life that everyone experiences. Both love and misfortune shape the lives of individuals in both positive and negative ways yet aren’t necessarily related. However, in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare takes a romantic story of two star-crossed lovers, willing to go to the end of the Earth for each other, and debatably turns their tale into one of the greatest tragedies of the modern era, filled with despair, devastation, and death

Heights" is a novel that written by Emily Brontë, this novel published in 1847 under the alias "Ellis Bell". The Victorians Age was a rapidly changing industrialized world. Imperial expansion impacted Victorian home. Reading was not only for pleasure at the time, but also for being in touch with the world. It was an age of empire and mass literacy, therefore the growth of industrialization rose labor prices and forced many to emigrate. In this article I will talk about " Wuthering Heights "novels, and I

Yvain and the Medieval Romance Genre Far off places! Daring sword fights! Magic spells! A prince in disguise! Not only are these words lyrics to the song Belle in Beauty and the Beast. They also apply to medieval romance literature, such as described in the book Yvain: Or the Knight with the Lion, by Chretien de Troyes. Two of the main ideas of this medieval romance literature genre included chivalry and courtly love, and these ideas directly reflected the thoughts of the time period. “Sometime

themselves in the writing department. The writers are mostly college students and High Schoolers that have a love for writing. The books have many genres but my interest will always be in the romance books. The romance genre is popular since it's mostly teenagers that are acquainted with Wattpad. Even though the romance books can get a little repetitive I love how the plots are always twisted to the author's liking. The books are rarely complete mostly, because of the authors' lifestyle, whether they have