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1	A first kiss is still a first kiss : romancing the mid-life reader and heroine Barletta, Sandra Anne January 2008 (has links) Through its depiction of heroines, romance fiction has the capacity to reflect the attitudes and concerns women face in society. However, the depiction of heroines in romance novels is bound by the constraints publishers place upon them. A vibrant, passionate mid-life heroine gets pushed into a subgenre where romance no longer exists as an option, while a mid-life reader in search of a romance heroine to identify with is relegated to novels where romance is a marginal issue, rather than the main impetus that leads the story. This study, and the novel A Basic Renovation, addresses a neglected demographic of reader and heroine who are marginalised within the romance genre. As well, it gives reasons why heroines need not be characterised in particular roles or situations as they age, and a rationale for why their underrepresentation as romance heroines should end.
2	Healing writes : restoring the authorial self through creative practice : and Birthright, a speculative fiction novel Parv, Valerie January 2007 (has links) Writing the speculative fiction novel, Birthright, and this accompanying exegesis, led me to challenge the validity of the disclaimer usually found in the front matter of most novels that the story is purely imaginary, bears no relationship to reality, with the characters not being inspired by anyone known or unknown to the author. For the first time in my career, I began to consider how writers including myself might frequently revisit themes and ideas which resonate with our lived experiences. I call this restorying, an unconscious process whereby aspects of one's life history are rewritten through one's creative work to achieve a more satisfactory result. Through personal contact, studying authors' accounts of their creative practices, and surveying current literature on narrative therapy, a case is made that, far from being generated purely from imagination, writers' creative choices are driven by an unconscious need to restory ourselves. alienation author authorial self authorship birthright catharsis creativity creative writing hindsight idea lived experience narrative therapy psychology romance writing storytelling writing David Alexander Sherman Alexie Aristotle Foucault Freud Harlequin Mills & Boon Stephen King Anne Lamott Charles Mauron Valerie Parv Plato Gene Roddenberry Silhouette Books Star Trek Virginia Woolf

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A first kiss is still a first kiss : romancing the mid-life reader and heroine

Healing writes : restoring the authorial self through creative practice : and Birthright, a speculative fiction novel