August Back-to-School: Romance 101 What’s-in-a-Genre? Week When you teach high school, you hear people talking about “boy books” or “girl books” a lot. I am baffled by this idea. I loved Huckleberry Finn and begged my 5th grade teacher not to… Read More ›
August Back-to-School: Romance 101 What’s-in-a-Genre? Week WARNING: SPOILERS Recently I went to the theater to see The Bourne Legacy with my family. I didn’t have the greatest expectations for it as it seemed like just another action movie. I’m sure action… Read More ›
August Back-To-School: Romance 101 What’s in a Genre? Week The Hunger Games has received a considerable amount of critical acclaim for its originality and for its dark and edgy dip into dystopian angst. But… you know what? Dystopian Schmitopian. The Hunger Games,… Read More ›
August Back-To-School: Romance 101 What’s in a Genre? Week Reading Harry Potter, were you one of the wise few who anticipated Ron and Hermione’s future from their first meeting in book one? Or, were you pulling for a Harry-Hermione love-fest?… Read More ›
August Back-To-School: Romance 101 What’s-in-a-Genre? Week Romances get a lot of flak for being fluff, for copying formulas, but romance is everywhere. It isn’t just in those Harlequins folks love to hate. It’s in Hunger Games and Harry Potter. It’s in Pride and Prejudice and… Read More ›
August Back-To-School: Romance 101 50 Shades of Grey Week For a critic, reading 50 Shades of Grey is a little like playing Whac-A-Mole. You move from sentence to sentence, and problems just sort of POP out at you. According to one… Read More ›
August Back-to-School: Romance 101 50 Shades of Grey and the Sex Question Week I hear it all the time from all kinds of people: “That’s not literature. We won’t be reading it in 100 years. It’s a crap book.” I… Read More ›
August Back-To-School: Romance 101 50 Shades of Grey Week Famously, in 1964, during Jacobellis v. Ohio, Justice Potter Stewart helped create the standard that protects all speech except for “hard-core pornography.” When defining hard-core pornography, Stewart said “I shall not today attempt further to… Read More ›
August Back-To-School: Romance 101 50 Shades of Grey and the Sex Question Week We spend most of our lives bombarded by billboards (electronic and otherwise), pop-up ads, product suggestions, commercials, CD covers, and a multitude of other visual/audio combinations. In… Read More ›
