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¡¾Editor's Choice¡¿
Today, the study of popular romance novels has become an academic field with a wide range and a lot of achievements. It not only has relevant international alliance organizations that can hold world-class seminars every year, but also publishes a series of academic journals continuously and steadily. And laying the key foundation for all these welcome developments is Janice A. Radway's classic book, written more than thirty years ago.
Why Romance Fiction, One of Publishing's Most Profitable Categories, Attracted Millions of Women Readers in the Second Half of the 20th Century Romance Novel Event Texture challenges feminists, literary critics, and popular culture theorists to belittle romance reading, arguing that romantic readers should be encouraged to speak out in reality rather than in imagined solitude.
¡¾Celebrity evaluation and recommendation¡¿
"Read Romance Novel" is unique. It set a standard for cultural studies, to which few have come close, to test theories about the effects of popular culture through close contact with those who may be influenced by it¡ª¡ª
"Journal of American History"
This book is an excellent and thorough analysis of romantic fiction and its devoted consumers-
"New York Times Book Review"
Janice Sladeway provides a deft and moving portrait of the phenomenon of contemporary women reading fiction, and how women who enjoy it view their own lives¡ª¡ª
"Journal of Communication"
This book examines not only the conventions of romance fiction, but also how the novel and its readers counteract certain stereotypes, often created by those who do not read them. Radway's work is an interesting and controversial aspect of social literary criticism¡ª¡ª
"Metropolis"
¡¾Introduction¡¿
Feminists, literary critics, and popular culture theorists have always ignored Romantic readings. A "romance plot," they claim, fosters female readers' dependence on men and acceptance of the repressive ideologies conveyed by popular culture. Janice Sladeway challenges this claim, arguing that critical attention must shift from considering the text itself in isolation to the complex social events behind the reading.
"Reading Romance Fiction" has received rave reviews for its innovative, groundbreaking ethnographic approach. In the field of research on popular art, this book has irreplaceable reference significance. This landmark book not only breaks the "myth" of consumption in popular culture, but also analyzes the aesthetic and consumption tendencies of a specific group of female readers.
I didn't intend to push this book. Although it is well written, it may be because I am the kind of reader who reads novels from God's perspective, so the investigation of this book is more of an eye-opener for me, but the last time I read it Seeing that Sue is so sympathetic to this book, thinking that maybe those readers who are more able to substitute for the protagonist should want to know about this book, I should give it a push. After all, it is very rare that there is a book that specializes in women's novels and their readers. .
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Author: Zhuo Yue (from Douban)
Since working, due to the relative freedom of work content and working hours, and also because of my love for reading, fishing and reading have become one of the key items in my daily work. Most of the books I read in recent years were completed during working hours. It was also during this time that I came into contact with Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", "Northanjuer Abbey" and "Persuasion". However, due to my lack of depth of thought, I did not appreciate the classic features of these time-tested works after reading them. So when I saw the cover of "Reading Romance Novels", I thought it would be a book to interpret such literary works, and my interest in reading was aroused a little bit, and the subtitle "Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature" made me even more interested in the works. It is full of expectations for how the content of the novel will explore the profound connotations expressed in this type of works through plots and descriptions. After I actually started reading, I realized that the "romantic novels" referred to in "Reading Romance Novels" were not works like "Pride and Prejudice", but works like Qiong Yao's romance novels.
"Reading Romance Novels" is an academic monograph that explores modern popular romance novels and their audiences. The author is American writer Janice A. Radway, a doctor of literature at Michigan State University, and an honorary professor of the Department of Literature and History at Duke University. First published in 1984, the work is "the first monograph of the most important and wide-ranging scholarly study of modern popular romance, and no one has done more of it since. ambition or structural depth". The author adopts the research method of "ethnography",??The "structural" problem is the dissatisfaction created by patriarchy.
In addition to the lack of emotion, what women need to constantly resolve is the hostility (such as sex) and the underestimation of women's value in this patriarchal world. These are also things that a romance novel can help its readers overcome.
So how do romance novels do it?
Overcome injuries and win in a fantasy world
Romance novels envision a more perfect world in which all women's needs (especially emotional ones) will be fully met; a world in which female values ??can be opposed to male values;
The "ideal" romance novel that most comforts readers is a fairy tale of the weak over the strong: a daring and rebellious teenage girl who uses her unique self and beauty to attract a ruthless and dissolute alpha male, but who uses her gentle nature to arouse In order to "conquer" this man who has always been ambiguous towards her (the man has emotional punishment and even violent plots in the process of getting along with him, but he also has tenderness, which is unpredictable), he began to give her the most. Tender loving care and total attention, just like a mother.
Thus, the harm and deprivation brought about by the male world were finally overcome by female power. Take it apart and see:
The paradox of male indifference vs female emotional satisfaction: When discussing male indifference in "ideal" novels, it is often interpreted as the male lead's cover-up of his turbulent heart in love with the female lead, but he turns out to be an outsider A person who is hot inside, once the heroine arouses his inner tenderness, he will transform into a passionate lover. In this process, readers indirectly experience the sense of power brought by controlling a relationship through the "God's perspective".
(Digression: The author found that the male protagonists in "ideal" romance novels generally have a soft and feminine appearance. For example, a tough silhouette with soft eyes, soft lips with a firm chin, etc. , the kind of man with 100 points in the whole body is not good)
For the ubiquitous strong plots, the author uses Clifford Geertz's interpretation of "art", that is, art is the simulation and interpretation of the real world to explain its role: such plots are actually female authors/ The reader emerges in an imaginary world trying to explain and manage this danger. In an "ideal" romance novel, Qiang is portrayed as having a controllable cause (whether she is a prostitute or not) or a controllable consequence (the hero is tenderly cared for and the heroine is restored), so the reader's fear Also calmed and controlled. [Whereas in "failed" romance novels, there are often too frequent, xxxxx plots that are quickly disgusted by the reader and thrown in the trash. ¡¿
In addition, in the story, the confrontation between female values ??and male values ??is also discussed: that is, the confrontation between the value of love and relationship vs. success in the outside world. More investment in the two-person world, proclaiming the success of female power. [And the plot that focuses too much on the hero's "stretch" in the business and political circles may become a "failure" romance novel that is not popular with readers].
Of course, at the end of the story, the heroine also gained a mature self (gaining mature emotions and sexual experience, and becoming a mature mother herself).
? Practical role: Conservative vs Confrontation/Active Coexistence Entanglement
It can be seen from the above that in these stories that can bring spiritual comfort to housewives in the 80s, although they are indeed discussing the threats and harm brought to them by the patriarchal society, they mainly rely on the rationalization of male expectations and marriage mechanisms. , From the perspective of women's rights, it is not really "progress".
But the author also emphasizes the initial antagonism contained in it: 1. First of all, the activity of reading romantic novels is often manifested by housewives taking the initiative to "retreat", "drawing out a piece of their own territory at home, and letting others go away and shut down temporarily." mouth", they will be immersed in reading and temporarily reject the emotional demands of their husbands and children; 2. In addition, a preliminary "alliance" has been formed: housewives form a loose "community" through the bookstore, and discuss with each other how to Topics such as their own hobbies and family defense have somewhat broken the isolation of some housewives at home. 3. It has indeed changed some women, aroused their desire to create, and made them willing to make a difference in the public sphere.
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