Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance
Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance

Author: Amy Burge

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-02-14

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1137593563

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This book, the first full-length cross-period comparison of medieval and modern literature, offers cutting edge research into the textual and cultural legacy of the Middle Ages: a significant and growing area of scholarship. At the juncture of literary, cultural and gender studies, and capitalizing on a renewed interest in popular western representations of the Islamic east, this book proffers innovative case studies on representations of cross-religious and cross-cultural romantic relationships in a selection of late medieval and twenty-first century Orientalist popular romances. Comparing the tropes, characterization and settings of these literary phenomena, and focusing on gender, religion, and ethnicity, the study exposes the historical roots of current romance representations of the east, advancing research in Orientalism, (neo)medievalism and medieval cultural studies. Fundamentally, Representing Difference invites a closer look at medieval and modern popular attitudes towards the east, as represented in romance, and the kinds of solutions proposed for its apparent problems.

Women Filmmakers in Contemporary Hindi Cinema
Women Filmmakers in Contemporary Hindi Cinema

Author: Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-01-28

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 3031102320

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This book is a comprehensive anthology comprising essays on women film directors, producers and screenwriters from Bollywood, or the popular Hindi film industry. It derives from the major theories of modernity, postmodern feminism, semiotics, cultural production, and gender performativity in globalized times. The collection transcends the traditional approaches of looking at films made by women filmmakers as ‘feminist’ cinema, and focuses on an extraordinary group of women filmmakers like Ashwini Iyer Tiwari, Bhavani Iyer, Farah Khan, Mira Nair Vijaya Mehta, and Zoya Akthar. The volume will be of interest to academics and theorists of gender and Hindi cinema, as well as anybody interested in contemporary Hindi films in their various manifestations.

THE SHY BRIDE
THE SHY BRIDE

Author: Lucy Monroe

Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative

Published: 2019-08-01

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 4596299773

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Cassandra is a world-renowned pianist and composer, but she’s afraid to appear in front of others and hides in her home, only giving piano lessons. This time her student is Neo, an entrepreneur who has never played the piano before. Outrageous rumors surround the Greek billionaire, so an anxious Cassandra awaits her new student… Assuming his teacher must be a dreary person if she’s hidden herself away from the world, Neo heads reluctantly to the piano lessons his friend is forcing him to take. Cassandra and Neo are both about to be surprised…

The English Romance in Time
The English Romance in Time

Author: Fellow and Tutor in English Helen Cooper

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 559

ISBN-13: 0199248869

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The great story motifs of romance were transmitted directly from the Middle Ages to the age of print in an abundance of editions. Spenser and Shakespeare assumed a familiarity with them and therefore exploited it, with new texts aimed at both elite and popular audiences

The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction
The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction

Author: K. Cooper

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-10-29

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1137283386

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From The Other Boleyn Girl to Fingersmith , this collection explores the popularity of female-centred historical novels in recent years. It asks how these representations are influenced by contemporary gender politics, and whether they can be seen as part of a wider feminist project to recover women's history.

Romance Fiction
Romance Fiction

Author: Kristin Ramsdell

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2012-03-02

Total Pages: 742

ISBN-13: 1610692357

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A comprehensive guide that defines the literature and the outlines the best-selling genre of all time: romance fiction. More than 2,000 romances are published annually, making it difficult for fans and the librarians who advise them to keep pace with new titles, emerging authors, and constant evolution of this dynamic genre. Fortunately, romance expert and librarian Kristin Ramsdell provides a definitive guide to this fiction genre that serves as an indispensible resource for those interested in it—including fans searching for reading material—as well as for library staff, scholars, and romance writers themselves. This title updates the last edition of Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre, published in 1999.While the emphasis is on newer titles, many of the important older classics are retained, keeping the focus of the book on the entire genre, instead of only those titles published during the last decade. Specific changes include new chapters on linked and continuing romances, a new section on "Chick Lit" in the Contemporary Romance chapter, an expansion of coverage on the alternative reality subset. This is THE romance genre guide to have.

The Reluctant MD
The Reluctant MD

Author: Dr Usha Mohan

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2021-01-16

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 163745385X

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Becoming a doctor was never her dream, but a doctor she did become. Welcome to the world of an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist whose journey as a doctor took her to places as varied as Africa, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea and Brunei, through experiences not many doctors would have or even want to have, ending her successful career as an active practitioner with the latest trend in the field of medicine, e-consulting. The Reluctant MD: A Gynaecologist’s Journey provides an insight into the tension-packed life of a doctor who has to think on her toes to bring smiles on her patients’ faces. Behind every baby delivered, every case solved is the story of her struggle to get everything right, a story a patient never gets to hear. And, of course, the amazing highs of impacting someone’s life directly, and the deep lows when patients do poorly. In short, every day is a new day with unanticipated challenges for her. The account leads us through the various incidents she encountered to become the successful doctor she eventually became. At once hilarious, horrifying and heart-breaking, this medical memoir leaves you wondering about many things – the quest for happiness, the pursuit of dreams, the meaning of success, but above all, the need to do one’s best, regardless.