'A Career's Wonderful, but Love Is More Wonderful Still' - Femininity and Masculinity in the Romantic Fiction of Mills and Boon. Diss.

Stylistic choices are not merely orNamental but can be highly meaningful in representing a particular view of reality rather than an other. This critical linguistic credo lies at the bottom of the present study, which examines how concepts of femininity and masculinity are encoded in romance fiction, a genre which until recently has been largely ignored by linguists as well as literary critics. A large, representative corpus of 80 romances, which cover a time span of over 60 years, allows to address diachronic as well as synchronic issues.

About the author

Sandra Engler wurde 1968 geboren und lebt mit ihren drei Kindern, die sie mächtig auf Trab halten, in Stephanskirchen. Die Texterin, Grafikerin und Künstlerin arbeitet frei und gibt Malkurse für Kinder und Frauen.

Product details

• Authors: Sandra Engler
• Publisher: Francke
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2005
• EAN: 9783772080654
• ISBN: 978-3-7720-8065-4
• No. of pages: 340
• Weight: 474 g
• Series: Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten; Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten 129; Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten (SAA); Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten (SAA); Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies