Author: Jenna Kernan
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373885997
Category : Vampires
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
"After receiving a mysterious warning, Bri has no choice but to seek refuge with an enemy she never thought she'd run to: werewolves. They're the only ones who can save her ... if they don't kill her first. As a werewolf, marine captain Travis MacConnelly should be immune to the deadly attraction of female vampires. But Bri ignites his most primal desires. When Mac realizes that his beautiful prisoner doesn't even know what she is, it's up to him to provide her with answers as well as protection. As the bond between them grows, so does the danger they're in"--
The Vampire's Wolf
Author: Jenna Kernan
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373885997
Category : Vampires
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
"After receiving a mysterious warning, Bri has no choice but to seek refuge with an enemy she never thought she'd run to: werewolves. They're the only ones who can save her ... if they don't kill her first. As a werewolf, marine captain Travis MacConnelly should be immune to the deadly attraction of female vampires. But Bri ignites his most primal desires. When Mac realizes that his beautiful prisoner doesn't even know what she is, it's up to him to provide her with answers as well as protection. As the bond between them grows, so does the danger they're in"--
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373885997
Category : Vampires
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
"After receiving a mysterious warning, Bri has no choice but to seek refuge with an enemy she never thought she'd run to: werewolves. They're the only ones who can save her ... if they don't kill her first. As a werewolf, marine captain Travis MacConnelly should be immune to the deadly attraction of female vampires. But Bri ignites his most primal desires. When Mac realizes that his beautiful prisoner doesn't even know what she is, it's up to him to provide her with answers as well as protection. As the bond between them grows, so does the danger they're in"--
Reading the Romance
Author: Janice A. Radway
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807898856
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's most lucrative categories, captivates millions of women readers. Among those who have disparaged romance reading are feminists, literary critics, and theorists of mass culture. They claim that romances enforce the woman reader's dependence on men and acceptance of the repressive ideology purveyed by popular culture. Radway questions such claims, arguing that critical attention "must shift from the text itself, taken in isolation, to the complex social event of reading." She examines that event, from the complicated business of publishing and distribution to the individual reader's engagement with the text. Radway's provocative approach combines reader-response criticism with anthropology and feminist psychology. Asking readers themselves to explore their reading motives, habits, and rewards, she conducted interviews in a midwestern town with forty-two romance readers whom she met through Dorothy Evans, a chain bookstore employee who has earned a reputation as an expert on romantic fiction. Evans defends her customers' choice of entertainment; reading romances, she tells Radway, is no more harmful than watching sports on television. "We read books so we won't cry" is the poignant explanation one woman offers for her reading habit. Indeed, Radway found that while the women she studied devote themselves to nurturing their families, these wives and mothers receive insufficient devotion or nurturance in return. In romances the women find not only escape from the demanding and often tiresome routines of their lives but also a hero who supplies the tenderness and admiring attention that they have learned not to expect. The heroines admired by Radway's group defy the expected stereotypes; they are strong, independent, and intelligent. That such characters often find themselves to be victims of male aggression and almost always resign themselves to accepting conventional roles in life has less to do, Radway argues, with the women readers' fantasies and choices than with their need to deal with a fear of masculine dominance. These romance readers resent not only the limited choices in their own lives but the patronizing atitude that men especially express toward their reading tastes. In fact, women read romances both to protest and to escape temporarily the narrowly defined role prescribed for them by a patriarchal culture. Paradoxically, the books that they read make conventional roles for women seem desirable. It is this complex relationship between culture, text, and woman reader that Radway urges feminists to address. Romance readers, she argues, should be encouraged to deliver their protests in the arena of actual social relations rather than to act them out in the solitude of the imagination. In a new introduction, Janice Radway places the book within the context of current scholarship and offers both an explanation and critique of the study's limitations.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807898856
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's most lucrative categories, captivates millions of women readers. Among those who have disparaged romance reading are feminists, literary critics, and theorists of mass culture. They claim that romances enforce the woman reader's dependence on men and acceptance of the repressive ideology purveyed by popular culture. Radway questions such claims, arguing that critical attention "must shift from the text itself, taken in isolation, to the complex social event of reading." She examines that event, from the complicated business of publishing and distribution to the individual reader's engagement with the text. Radway's provocative approach combines reader-response criticism with anthropology and feminist psychology. Asking readers themselves to explore their reading motives, habits, and rewards, she conducted interviews in a midwestern town with forty-two romance readers whom she met through Dorothy Evans, a chain bookstore employee who has earned a reputation as an expert on romantic fiction. Evans defends her customers' choice of entertainment; reading romances, she tells Radway, is no more harmful than watching sports on television. "We read books so we won't cry" is the poignant explanation one woman offers for her reading habit. Indeed, Radway found that while the women she studied devote themselves to nurturing their families, these wives and mothers receive insufficient devotion or nurturance in return. In romances the women find not only escape from the demanding and often tiresome routines of their lives but also a hero who supplies the tenderness and admiring attention that they have learned not to expect. The heroines admired by Radway's group defy the expected stereotypes; they are strong, independent, and intelligent. That such characters often find themselves to be victims of male aggression and almost always resign themselves to accepting conventional roles in life has less to do, Radway argues, with the women readers' fantasies and choices than with their need to deal with a fear of masculine dominance. These romance readers resent not only the limited choices in their own lives but the patronizing atitude that men especially express toward their reading tastes. In fact, women read romances both to protest and to escape temporarily the narrowly defined role prescribed for them by a patriarchal culture. Paradoxically, the books that they read make conventional roles for women seem desirable. It is this complex relationship between culture, text, and woman reader that Radway urges feminists to address. Romance readers, she argues, should be encouraged to deliver their protests in the arena of actual social relations rather than to act them out in the solitude of the imagination. In a new introduction, Janice Radway places the book within the context of current scholarship and offers both an explanation and critique of the study's limitations.
The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran
Author: Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Photography and the Art of Chance
Author: Robin Kelsey
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674744004
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
As anyone who has wielded a camera knows, photography has a unique relationship to chance. It also represents a struggle to reconcile aesthetic aspiration with a mechanical process. Robin Kelsey reveals how daring innovators expanded the aesthetic limits of photography in order to create art for a modern world.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674744004
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
As anyone who has wielded a camera knows, photography has a unique relationship to chance. It also represents a struggle to reconcile aesthetic aspiration with a mechanical process. Robin Kelsey reveals how daring innovators expanded the aesthetic limits of photography in order to create art for a modern world.
More Portmanteau Plays
Author: Stuart Walker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Come Hither
Author: Walter De la Mare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
A collection of rhymes and poems for the young of all ages.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
A collection of rhymes and poems for the young of all ages.
Li Bo Unkempt
Author: Kidder Smith
Publisher: punctum books
ISBN: 1953035426
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
Publisher: punctum books
ISBN: 1953035426
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
Eminent Authors of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Georg Brandes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910
Author: Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910" by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Florence Howe Hall, Maud Howe Elliott. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910" by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Florence Howe Hall, Maud Howe Elliott. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Shifter's Choice
Author: Jenna Kernan
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373009348
Category : Disabled veterans
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
"They took his humanity...but left a hero's heart. Feisty and street-wise, Private Sofia Touma has too much at stake to risk being distracted from her duty to the marine corps. That is, until she's assigned to help the compelling and disabled veteran Johnny Lam. More than a war hero, he's also a werewolf who can't shift back to human form. And Sofia is quickly, inexplicably drawn to him. Unlike Sofia, Johnny understands the risks involved in her loving a monster. But with each day bringing them closer together, he isn't sure he'll be able to continue to do the honorable thing...or protect her from the enemies intent on keeping him a werewolf forever" --
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373009348
Category : Disabled veterans
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
"They took his humanity...but left a hero's heart. Feisty and street-wise, Private Sofia Touma has too much at stake to risk being distracted from her duty to the marine corps. That is, until she's assigned to help the compelling and disabled veteran Johnny Lam. More than a war hero, he's also a werewolf who can't shift back to human form. And Sofia is quickly, inexplicably drawn to him. Unlike Sofia, Johnny understands the risks involved in her loving a monster. But with each day bringing them closer together, he isn't sure he'll be able to continue to do the honorable thing...or protect her from the enemies intent on keeping him a werewolf forever" --