Consuming Agency and Desire in Romance : Stories of Love, Laughter, and Empowerment 9781498536905, 9781498536899

The romance industry has profited on the fantasies of women for centuries. However, as a new generation of women raised

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Consuming Agency and Desire in Romance : Stories of Love, Laughter, and Empowerment
9781498536905, 9781498536899

Love Stories offers an ethnography of language and desire that doubles as an introduction to key linguistic genres and t

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Was Alfred Hitchcock a cynical trifler with his audience's emotions, as he liked to pretend? Or was he a profoundly

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