#romance-tropes

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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

There's only one bed', fake dating' and opposites attract': how tropes took over romance

Tropes dominate contemporary romance publishing and marketing, succinctly signaling subgenre, reader expectations, and market positioning.
fromThe Independent
1 week ago

Wuthering Heights review - Emerald Fennell's adaptation is astonishingly bad

With its title stylised in quotation marks, and a director's statement that it's intended to capture her experience of reading the book aged 14, it uses the guise of interpretation to gut one of the most impassioned, emotionally violent novels ever written, and then toss its flayed skin over whatever romance tropes seem most marketable. Adaptation or not, it's an astonishingly hollow work.
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fromThe Atlantic
4 months ago

Eight Romance Novels for Romance Skeptics

Arranged marriages generate real feelings. A human falls in love with a high lord of the fae. These are just a few of the plots readers can find in modern romance novels, which vary in tone, setting, and characters but are united by one key characteristic: a central love story that culminates in the all-important HEA (happily ever after, for the uninitiated). Everything leading up to that-the meet-cute, the first kiss, the third-act breakup-is left to the author.
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