tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364421159527172241.post7625261775431013341..comments2023-03-26T04:13:33.702-07:00Comments on Be Still, My Heart: Words in my defenseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364421159527172241.post-39684307370617719532011-08-31T08:22:16.815-07:002011-08-31T08:22:16.815-07:00"The American Historical Romance" by Geo..."The American Historical Romance" by George Dekker, Cambridge UP, 1987. While it's not about the literary form the romance novel took as we know it today, the mass market paperback (and as it evolves into the e-book), there are structural elements and even ideological elements that pertain to both.<br /><br />As far as Regis and structural elements, Chris Vogler imho did all that. None of it is unique to romance; the fact that romance contains the exact same "good story" elements as other fiction should mitigate in its favor.Linda Ann Wheeler Hiltonhttp://www.lindahilton.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364421159527172241.post-34669567334754184982011-08-31T08:00:17.118-07:002011-08-31T08:00:17.118-07:00That's why I keep scouring Amazon for affordab...<i>That's why I keep scouring Amazon for affordable copies of reference books like Dekker's</i><br /><br />Sounds interesting. What is it?<br /><br /><i>the more I read of Regis, the more gaps I discover that leave whole concepts unexplored</i><br /><br />It seems to me that your thesis and Pam's book are really on quite different topics. I know Pam does discuss feminism and feminist criticism of the genre, but her primary focus is the structural elements of romances (barrier, moment of ritual death etc).Laura Vivancohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906661869372622821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364421159527172241.post-22172659863816391572011-08-31T05:30:57.618-07:002011-08-31T05:30:57.618-07:00Hi, Laura --
Oooh, thanks for your response!
&qu...Hi, Laura --<br /><br />Oooh, thanks for your response!<br /><br />"The Future" was the future as of May 2000. I had met with an editor from McFarland at women's studies conference and we talked about the project. There followed some correspondence, as they maintained interest in it for quite some time, but as I posted on DA, my life intervened and I was never able to finish it. When Pamela Regis' "Natural History" was published in 2003, I just set the whole HH, HH project aside. <br /><br />As I now read through the original thesis from 2000, I see areas that beg for expansion and updating. And the more I read of Regis, the more gaps I discover that leave whole concepts unexplored. Would I like to expand HH, HH into book length? Hell, yes! That's why I keep scouring Amazon for affordable copies of reference books like Dekker's. Unfortunately, I also have a day job and a real life that require commitment, so I'm not sure just how much time I can/could devote to it. <br /><br />But as I continue to read the discussions on Dear Author and SBTB and elsewhere, the need for a serious examination of the romance novel as it developed as a post-WW2 art form (and commercial commodity) seems desperate. The novels seem to be becoming more and more anti-feminist, the heroines more and more willing to go right back to the barefoot and pregnant cliche. That scares me, and I think it scares other people, too.Linda Ann Wheeler Hiltonhttp://www.lindahilton.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4364421159527172241.post-27449468110263382772011-08-31T01:48:35.878-07:002011-08-31T01:48:35.878-07:00Linda, is that bit about "The Future" al...Linda, is that bit about "The Future" also something you wrote in 2000 or is it an update on the situation? In other words, are you currently planning to expand "<i>Half Heaven, Half Heartache: Discovering the Transformative Potential in Women’s Popular Fiction</i> [...] into book-length"?Laura Vivancohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906661869372622821noreply@blogger.com