Tag: Romance

Free Download Sheryl McDonald Werronen, "Popular Romance in Iceland: The Women, Worldviews, and Manuscript Witnesses of Nítída saga"
English | 2016 | pages: 276 | ISBN: 9089647953 | PDF | 2,8 mb
A late medieval Icelandic romance about the ‘maiden-king’ of France, Nítída saga generated interest in its day and grew in popularity in post-Reformation Iceland, yet until now it has not received the comprehensive scholarly analysis that it much deserves. Analysing this saga from a variety of perspectives, this book sheds light on the manner in which Nítída saga explores and negotiates the romance genre from an Icelandic perspective, showcasing this exciting saga’s strong female characters, worldviews, and long manuscript tradition. Beginning with Nítída saga’s manuscript context, including its reception and transformation in early modern Iceland, this study also discusses how Nítída saga was influenced by, and also later influenced, other Icelandic romances. Considering the text as literature, discussion of its unusual depiction of world geography, as well as the various characters and their relationships, provides insights into medieval Icelanders’ ideas about themselves and the world they lived in, including questions about Icelandic identity, gender, female solidarity, and the literary genre of romance itself. The book also includes a newly revised reading edition and translation of Nítída saga.

Free Download Writing a Romance Novel for Dummies (2nd Edition) (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C2616PCV | 2023 | 14 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 406 MB
Author: Victorine Lieske
Narrator: Tanya Eby

Published 5/2023
Created by Jeff M
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 24 Lectures ( 1h 51m ) | Size: 1.1 GB

Free Download Michelle Janning, "Love Letters: Saving Romance in the Digital Age "
English | ISBN: 1138055263 | 2018 | 122 pages | EPUB | 440 KB
In today’s world of Tinder and texting, do we write and save love letters anymore? Are we more likely to save a screenshot of a text exchange or a box of paper letters from a lover? How might these different ways to store a love letter make us feel? Sociologist Michelle Janning’s Love Letters: Saving Romance in the Digital Age offers a new twist on the study of love letters: what people do with them and whether digital or paper format matters. Through stories, a rich review of past research, and her own survey findings, Janning uncovers whether and how people from different groups (including gender and age) approach their love letter "curatorial practices" in an era when digitization of communication is nearly ubiquitous. She investigates the importance of space and time, showing how our connection to the material world and our attraction to nostalgia matter in actions as seemingly small and private as saving, storing, stumbling upon, or even burning a love letter. Janning provides a framework for understanding why someone may prefer digital or paper love letters, and what that preference says about a person’s access and attachment to powerful cultural values such as individualization, taking time in a hectic world, longevity, privacy, and keeping cherished things in a safe place. Ultimately, Janning contends, the cultural values that tell us how romantic love should be defined are more powerful than the format our love letters take.

Free Download Romance and Its Contexts in Fifteenth-Century England: Politics, Piety and Penitence By Raluca L. Radulescu
2013 | 252 Pages | ISBN: 1843843595 | PDF | 2 MB
Although the anonymous pious Middle English romances and Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur have rarely been studied in relation to each other, they in fact share at least two thematic concerns, vocabularies of suffering and genealogical concerns, as this book demonstrates. By examining a broad cultural and political framework stretching from Richard II’s deposition to the end of the Wars of the Roses through the prism of piety, politics and penitence, the author draws attention to the specific circumstances in which Sir Isumbras, Sir Gowther, Roberd of Cisely, Henry Lovelich’s History of the Holy Grail and Malory’s Morte were read in fifteenth-century England. In the case of the pious romances this implies a study of their reception long after their original composition or translation centuries earlier; in Lovelich’s case, an examination of metropolitan culture leads to an opening of the discussion to French romance models as well as English chronicle writing. Overall romance reception is investigated through analysis of the manuscript transmission and circulation of these texts alongside contemporary devotional and political texts and chronicles. Dr Raluca Radulescu is Reader in Medieval Literature and Co-Director, Institute for Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Bangor and Aberystwyth Universities.

Free Download The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity by Bobby Azarian
English | June 28, 2022 | ISBN: 1637740441 | 299 pages | PDF | 1.98 Mb
Why do we exist? For centuries, this question was the sole province of religion and philosophy. But now science is ready to take a seat at the table.

Free Download Juggling Romance and Parenthood: How to balance your family and your love life (Health & Wellbeing) by . 50Minutes
English | January 4, 2018 | ISBN: 2808005075 | 76 pages | EPUB | 0.59 Mb
Change is only 50 minutes away! Find out everything you need to know about keeping things in perspective as a new parent with this straightforward guide.