Few novel ideas remain in romance industry When you find your niche,...

Chicago Sun-Times;  December 6, 2001 ;   Paige Smoron;   504 words ......been my dream to write the great American romance novel. Ever since I read the unforgettable "Sweet Dreams" romance The Popularity Plan, I've known what I...as though the game has changed. Upstart romance writers no longer have to fear only the...

G.K. Chesterton and the Orthodox romance of 'Pride and Prejudice.'

Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature;  March 22, 1997 ;   Crowe, Marian E.;   787 words ......would answer resoundingly with one word: romance. His use of the same word for three apparently...Christian faith. His use of the same word, romance, to describe all three suggests that he...Chesterton's claims about the nature of romance are wonderfully illustrated in what is...

Romance ups original productions. (Romance Classics)

Multichannel News;  December 8, 1997 ;   Moss, Linda;   463 words ......conformance with its long-term game plan, Romance Classics is increasing its original programming...series in primetime. In the first quarter, Romance plans to start airing a different original...of which are already on-air, focus on romance-inspired topics such as weekend getaways...

G.K. Chesterton and the orthodox romance of Pride and Prejudice

Renascence;  April 1, 1997 ;   Marian E Crowe;   787 words ......would answer resoundingly with one word: romance. His use of the same word for three apparently...Christian faith. His use of the same word, romance, to describe all three suggests that he...Chesterton's claims about the nature of romance are wonderfully illustrated in what is...

Mauling Governor Pyncheon. (Nathaniel Hawthorne's treatment of romance)

Studies in the Novel;  September 22, 1994 ;   Bellis, Peter J.;   787 words ...Hawthorne's conception of the romance has come under renewed attack in recent...1) Such critics see the energy of the romance as directed away from reality, toward...fictional and imaginary. But Hawthorne's romance has an equally important opposite thrust...

ROMANCE IS A GIFT TO BE TREASURED THROUGHOUT LIFE

Evansville Courier & Press;  February 10, 2004 ;   Judy Lyden;   566 words ...Romance is dead. John Eldridge, who wrote "Wild at Heart," says...own battles. The question is why. I think the killing of romance must begin in childhood, and then for some rings its death...destruction of the beautiful human expressions that mean romance. The question strikes at the heart. Is it a failure ...

The double nature of romance

The Spectator;  February 17, 2007 ;   Massie, Allan;   694 words ...The word 'romance' has come down in the world, and the romantic...which the love-interest predominates. A romance used to be more spirited, a tale of adventure...blood drips down on them. Marvellous. But romance is out of fashion. Most modern thrillers...

For mental health: romance on a buck a day. (Living Well).(Brief Article)

Paraplegia News;  November 1, 2001 ;   Brasch, John;   787 words ......a long way. There are no real experts of romance. I should clarify the connection between romance and mental health. Good mental health is...reassess what is working--and what is not. Romance, when mixed with good mental health, is like...

Entertaining "Romance/Romance" equals less then sum of two parts

Sunday News Lancaster, PA;  March 20, 2005 ;   Marty Crisp;   596 words ..."Romance, romance, A dubious fate, It's tough to wed, But it's harder to date." (With apologies...Barry Harman and Keith Hermann's short-lived 1988 Broadway musical, "Romance/Romance," is good enough to make your heart beat faster. The whole affair...

DENNIS McCANN; Keep eyes open and you'll find Romance

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  February 13, 2005 ;   DENNIS McCANN;   786 words ...Romance -- It is the most reliable arrow in the wandering writer...Valentine's Day intended to help lost and lonely readers find Romance. Take Highway 56 west from Viroqua about 15 miles and watch for the sign that says "Welcome to Romance, Turkey Capital of Wisconsin." You can't miss it. Well...

Romance between the covers is alive and well

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  March 14, 1999 ;   DOUG RIGGS;   787 words ......it, these are not the best of times for romance. Divorces are being negotiated before...and flowers. Not to mention the state of romance in the highest office of the land. In...Monica Sheehan (Warner Books, $8.99). If romance between the sheets is in deep trouble...

THE WINNEBAGO OF LOVE GREG GODEK TRAVELS THE COUNTRY TEACHING FINE POINTS...

The Virginian Pilot;  February 14, 1996 ;   Gordon, Debra;   740 words ......DEBRA GORDON, STAFF WRITER THE KING OF romance is 40 and slightly rotund. His black hair...frequently. The kind of dedication to romance that has resulted in a room filled with...in his Boston home - all stuffed with romance ideas. Godek was in Norfolk recently at...

Why does the slave ever love? The subject of romance revisited in the...

The Southern Literary Journal;  September 22, 2007 ;   Robinson, Angelo Rich;   787 words ......Until ... [the emotional capacity for romance] is thoroughly established in respect...Americans are incapable of experiencing romance in their intimate relationships. Nehemiah...physical desire: lust. The idea of black romance, even if fictionalized, is for Nehemiah...

The space of romance in Lennox's 'Female Quixote.' (1752 novel by...

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900;  June 22, 1998 ;   Gordon, Scott Paul;   787 words ......effort to dispel as unreal and dangerous the romance tradition that English readers had valued...years. Lennox's heroine, deluded by reading romance, seems to emblematize the irrelevancy of romance to real life ; when Arabella is cured by...

romance

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms;    CHRISTOPHER BALDICK;   318 words ...romance, a fictional story in verse or prose that relates improbable...popular escapist love story to the ‘scientific romances’ of H. G. Wells, but it usually refers to the tales...Thomas Malory (in prose), and many others (see chivalric romance ). Medieval romance is distinguished from ...