Video games are powerful narrative media that continue to evolve. Romance in Japan, which began as text-based adventure and today known bish?jo otome games, form a textual corpus for literary studies. They adopt conventional strategies explore new forms formulated by an interface with computer-generated texts audiovisual fetishism, thereby challenging the assumptions about modern values of stor...

Comparative literature sets our home tradition in a differential frame and takesus out of culture altogether, offering us the provisional freedom to imagine world, ourselves, differently. But what if we remained this new world forever, with only some Romantic Ideals taken from family culture? That is sense Neo-Romantic discours Ol’ha Kobylyans’ka’s novel “A Princess” (“Tsarivna”) comparison Ger...

Bataille de Kirholm by Henri Krasiński and the transnational Polish-French historical novel in Romantic era The author of article proposes an interpretation through notions francophony, migration transnationalism. He analyzes authorial posture adopted writer, based on his migrant status, but also poetics text, transposition into French Polish historical, cultural linguistic elements. thus inten...

Author’s note: Converting my AEPL presentation to an article required a few changes in structure. In addition, I incorporated material from the handouts and answers to questions that audience members raised. During the presentation, participants examined excerpts from graphic narratives, which are not included here. However, the activities are described for those who would like to find the imag...

The stark contrasts between romance novels and pornography, both multibillion dollar global industries, underscore how different male and female erotic fantasies actually are. These differences reflect the different selection pressures males and females faced over human evolutionary history and highlight the utility of using unobtrusive measures to study aspects of human nature. Salmon & Symons...

Several novels George Sand wrote during the 1840s – when her political view was progressively becoming more radical are centred on characters promoting a utopian socialist project without actually belonging to fiction. This article intends explore semantic scope and fictional use of some recurring narrational themes such as “park”, “dream” “convivial table”. These work real literary topoi conde...

Abstract Following the foundation of NHS in 1948, a new sub-genre romantic fiction emerged: ‘Doctor–Nurse’ romances, usually involving romance between male doctor and female nurse, were set hospitals. Drawing on Mills & Boon archive novels themselves, this article explores representations health service notions gendered healthcare professionalism postwar Britain. I argue that rather than pr...

Copyright © 2006 Heldref Publications Abstract: This article explores the often contradictory relationship between films and comic book art. Adaptations of superhero comics have reinforced a commercialistic blockbuster mentality among the Hollywood studios. Adaptations of graphic novels have explored alternate visions of visual style and representation. Complications of these polarized effects ...