Romance conferences today: @IASPR & #romcon at Intern'l Assoc for the Study of Popular Romance; @RWAus & #RWAus09 for writers conference
#romcon Starting up again! But don't have my power cord for my computer, so don't know how long I'll be able to go. :(
#romcon Starting up again! But don't have my power cord for my computer, so don't know how long I'll be able to go. :(
#romcon Hsu-Ming Teo, Macquarie University, Australia: “Historicizing The Sheik: Comparisons of the British novel and the American Film”
#romcon Hsu-Ming Teo is so smart. I have such a girl crush on her.
#romcon Rape as motif in literature. Doesn't mean the same thing to different audiences across history.
#romcon For those of you who missed it this morning: Fabulous coverage of @IASPR conference on Aussie TV:
bit.ly#romcon Jennifer Kloester, Biographer, Australia: “Georgette Heyer and the Evolution of Historical Romance”
#romcon Walter Scott as founder of hist. romance. [Well, yes, but there were certainly historical fiction novels written before Waverly]
#romcon [Sophia Lee, for example. But it only got taken seriously when Scott shed the mantle of the phallus over hist. rom. Sigh.]
#romcon Heyer doesn't just use Regency as colorful backdrop for story. She uses Regency to inform chars' behavior in novels.
#romcon Modern hist. rom. authors sometimes don't feel bound by historical reality of the way chars. would act. Heroines are v. 21st C.
#romcon Permanently suppressed Georgette Heyer novels: 4 contemporary novels (!) and "The Great Roxhythe" prob. b/c too homosocial.
#romcon Heyer not trying too hard in first few hist. rom. to get historical detail completely accurate.
#romcon Great weaknesses of Heyer's medieval romances is lack of understanding of religion.
#romcon Heyer's "Regency Buck" was actually her 23rd book, first Regency novel.
#romcon Pictures of Heyer's notebooks. OMG, beautiful! Heyer a "writer of history, not an historian."
#romcon Heyer regularly reviewed in all major papers.
#romcon Heyer's first instant bestseller: Friday's Child. Created Regency genre from Friday's child.
If you're a Georgette Heyer fan, they're discussing her work at #romcon.
#romcon Kloester's work on Heyer is EXACTLY the type of work on romance authors and field that is needed and required! Yay!
#romcon Lisa Fletcher, University of Tasmania, Australia: “Between Women: Heterosexual Historical Romance and the Cultural Work of Genre”
#romcon Fletcher been lured away from genre studies into history of colonial mutiny.
#romcon Are we now unable to fictionalize the past without making into a romance? Studying rep. of Mutiny on Bounty thru history.
Romance conferences today: @IASPR & #romcon for the Study of Popular Romance; @RWAus & #RWAus09 for writers conference (via @BookThingo)
#romcon Computer dying...27% left. Sigh.
#romcon Cultural work of romance genre which refuses to confine business to page or screen of fiction: spreads to understanding of mutiny.
#romcon Romance narr. interpolate us into certain ways of being, not just reading. Our personal sense of love cannot be sep. from genre.
#romcon Experience does not exist outside order of language and culture. Ubiquity of romance tropes and conventions outside texts.
#romcon When is romance a genre and when a mode (qualifications or modifications of particular genre)?
#romcon In Twilight: is romance the genre or mode? Is Twilight a romantic vampire story, or a vampire romance?
#romcon Popular Romance Studies MUST be interdisciplinary in scope. Speech act "I love you" is elastic and covers mode and genre.
#romcon What theory of genre underpins the ideology of romance studies?
#romcon @angoris You need to get in touch with Lisa Fletcher. You need to be in conversation with her about your project in genre theory.
#romcon John Frow's "Genre" v. important to study of popular romance:
bit.ly#romcon Frow: Genre is central to human meaning making.
#romcon Frow: Ever present status of genre in life gives us mode to understand how romance genre is used all the time.
#romcon Romance is so powerful b/c it does not stop working at ideological boundaries of romance fiction.
#romcon What is scope of popular romance studies? Span, intertext, hybrid, codes of romance. Meta-romance studies is needed.
#romcon Huge girl crush on Lisa Fletcher as well. Intellectual (or at least, theoretical) genius.
#romcon Done with panel. Tea. Probably won't be able to Twitter afterwards. Sorry!
#romcon Back online on a netbook, so please excuse typos b/c of tiny leetle keyboard. itsy bitsy keyboard.
#romcon Juliet Flesch, University of Melbourne, Australia: “Attitudes of Victorian Public Librarians towards Romance Readers”
#romcon How are romance readers by public libaries or librarians?
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