With the invention of the printing press, the demand for books skyrocketed, and led to the creation of pulp magazines. To some these magazines were not “serious” literature standard, as often times they were printed on low quality paper, sold cheaply (dime magazines), and in locations like drug stores and train stations.
B. Psychoanalytic critics were particularly interested in the horror genre for its uncanny characteristics. The story deals in the realm of the id and ego battling it out. Past horrors are dealt with through the ego defence mechanism, with a lot dealing with repressed sexual tendencies. People love them because it is always more fun to read about someone who is mentally unstable than with a science fictional monster.
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In Hughes Allison story “Corollary”, the similarities between race and class shows up within the story. The main character was a coloured detective, a rank above the normal policemen work. The villains/victims of the story are all lower class trying to move up a class level by stealing/ being stolen from. The coloured detective uses his skin colour to make people talk to him, where ultimately working against them, choosing the law, over someone who happens to have the same skin tone as him.
F. The creation of romance stories, lead to the goals of feminist literary criticism. Reading these stories, feminist viewed them as a good thing, as a majority of the stories takes place of the point of view of a women. The first half of the story shows her independents, how she disagree with the male gender, thus the conflict between herself and her love interest.
G. Romance novels, read to show the women in her traditional settings, seen throughout history. In all these stories the women has to get married, thus the end goal of these stories are all the same: the women ahs to marry a man to continue on her survival in life. The male brutality is made out to be in love, thus later half of the book lets the women submit to his harsh ways, in the name of …show more content…
This patriarchal ideology is actually false in many romance novels, as it is the woman who holds the power, not the men. In Hortense McRaven’s “The Love Pawn” Paula is a day away from marrying wealthy Monty Lewis, when a man jumps into her car and by gun point, demands her to drive. Paula was determine not the make the gun man, nicknamed Red, put up a verbal fight with him as they drove away. Paula's conflict with Red, disagreeing that he should steal the money, shows the conflict between the lovers as they both represent opposite sides of the point of the story. Even Paula’s other love interest, starting with Monty the man she was supposed to marry to please her uncle, Paula could not because she felt no love for him. The other man, Eric, who was madly in love with Paula, ended up being one of the man who robbed Red, changings Paula’s opinion on him. Red was honest with Paula all the time, treated her as a equal, and made her a partner in his plot based off of a gut feeling he had about her.The story taking place by Paula’s perspective also shows the emotion and the “feminine” side of the situation, as Paula’s deals with her other lovers, the conflict at hand, as well as her emotions towards Red. Beside the initial kidnapping, Red does not lay a hand against Paula, and ultimately falls in love with her firecracker personality, and finally allow someone else into his
B. Psychoanalytic critics were particularly interested in the horror genre for its uncanny characteristics. The story deals in the realm of the id and ego battling it out. Past horrors are dealt with through the ego defence mechanism, with a lot dealing with repressed sexual tendencies. People love them because it is always more fun to read about someone who is mentally unstable than with a science fictional monster.
D. …show more content…
In Hughes Allison story “Corollary”, the similarities between race and class shows up within the story. The main character was a coloured detective, a rank above the normal policemen work. The villains/victims of the story are all lower class trying to move up a class level by stealing/ being stolen from. The coloured detective uses his skin colour to make people talk to him, where ultimately working against them, choosing the law, over someone who happens to have the same skin tone as him.
F. The creation of romance stories, lead to the goals of feminist literary criticism. Reading these stories, feminist viewed them as a good thing, as a majority of the stories takes place of the point of view of a women. The first half of the story shows her independents, how she disagree with the male gender, thus the conflict between herself and her love interest.
G. Romance novels, read to show the women in her traditional settings, seen throughout history. In all these stories the women has to get married, thus the end goal of these stories are all the same: the women ahs to marry a man to continue on her survival in life. The male brutality is made out to be in love, thus later half of the book lets the women submit to his harsh ways, in the name of …show more content…
This patriarchal ideology is actually false in many romance novels, as it is the woman who holds the power, not the men. In Hortense McRaven’s “The Love Pawn” Paula is a day away from marrying wealthy Monty Lewis, when a man jumps into her car and by gun point, demands her to drive. Paula was determine not the make the gun man, nicknamed Red, put up a verbal fight with him as they drove away. Paula's conflict with Red, disagreeing that he should steal the money, shows the conflict between the lovers as they both represent opposite sides of the point of the story. Even Paula’s other love interest, starting with Monty the man she was supposed to marry to please her uncle, Paula could not because she felt no love for him. The other man, Eric, who was madly in love with Paula, ended up being one of the man who robbed Red, changings Paula’s opinion on him. Red was honest with Paula all the time, treated her as a equal, and made her a partner in his plot based off of a gut feeling he had about her.The story taking place by Paula’s perspective also shows the emotion and the “feminine” side of the situation, as Paula’s deals with her other lovers, the conflict at hand, as well as her emotions towards Red. Beside the initial kidnapping, Red does not lay a hand against Paula, and ultimately falls in love with her firecracker personality, and finally allow someone else into his