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Hard-Core Romance
By:Eva Illouz
Published on 2014-05-22 by University of Chicago Press

From its beginnings in Twilight fan-fiction to its record-breaking sales as an e-book and paperback, the story of the erotic romance novel Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels is both unusual and fascinating. Having sold over seventy million copies worldwide since 2011, E. L. James’s lurid series about a sexual ingénue and the powerful young entrepreneur who introduces her to BDSM sex has ingrained itself in our collective consciousness. But why have these particular novels—poorly written and formulaic as they are—become so popular, especially among women over thirty? In this concise, engaging book, Eva Illouz subjects the Fifty Shades cultural phenomenon to the serious scrutiny it has been begging for. After placing the trilogy in the context of best-seller publishing, she delves into its remarkable appeal, seeking to understand the intense reading pleasure it provides and how that resonates with the structure of relationships between men and women today. Fifty Shades, Illouz argues, is a gothic romance adapted to modern times in which sexuality is both a source of division between men and women and a site to orchestrate their reconciliation. As for the novels’ notorious depictions of bondage, discipline, and sadomasochism, Illouz shows that these are as much a cultural fantasy as a sexual one, serving as a guide to a happier romantic life. The Fifty Shades trilogy merges romantic fantasy with self-help guide—two of the most popular genres for female readers. Offering a provocative explanation for the success and popularity of the Fifty Shades of Grey novels, Hard-Core Romance is an insightful look at modern relationships and contemporary women’s literature.

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Don't you type of wood (secretly, in the marrow of your gut's merry druthers) for the nice ol'times of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all reviews were consistently plainspoken, just practical, unpretentious, and -- above all else -- dull, boring, boring? Don't you sort of loathe when people say'don't you believe this way or sense this way'in an effort to goad you both psychologically and grammatically in to agreeing together? In the words of ABBA: I really do, I do, I do(, I actually do, I do). Properly, since the interwebs is just a world where yesteryear stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the present (and with fetish porn), we could review yesteryear in their inviolable presentness anytime we wish. Or at the least till this website finally tanks. Consider (won't you?) Matt Nieberle's review of Macbeth in its entirety. I've destined it with huge rope and pulled it here for the perusal. (Please recognize that many a sic are recommended in the next reviews.) its really complicated and foolish! why cant we be studying like Romeo and Juliet?!?! at the least that guide is great! There you have it. Refreshingly, not a evaluation prepared in one of the witch's voices or alluding to Hillary and Statement Clinton or discussing the reviewer's first period. Merely a primal shout unleashed to the dark wilderness of the cosmos.Yes, Mr. Nieberle is (probably) a teen, but I admire his power to strongarm the temptation to be clever or ironic. (Don't you?) He speaks the native language of the idk generation by having an economy and a clarity that renders his convictions all the more emphatic. Here's MICHAEL's report on the exact same play. You might'know'MICHAEL; he is the'Problems Architect'only at Goodreads. (A problematic title itself in so it implies that he designs problems... that will be the case, for all I know.) This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that that you don't want to read is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks in the first place, if it was designed to be read, then it would have been a novel, not really a play. Along with that the teach had us students read the play aloud (on person for every single character for a few pages). None people had browse the play before. None people wanted to read it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that looked like they weren't paying attention. This compounded to produce me more or less hate reading classics for something like 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And yes it can really fuck up your GPA. There's no wasteful extravagance in this editorial... no fanfare, no fireworks, no linked photos of half-naked, oiled-up, big-bosomed starlets, no invented dialogues between mcdougal and the review-writer. It's simple and memorable. Being required to read plays is wrong, and in the event that you require anyone, under duress, to learn a play you then have sinned and will hell, in the event that you believe in hell. Or even, you're planning to the DMV. I'm also tired of all you could smug spelling snobs. You damnable fascists with your new-fangled dictionaries and your fancy-schmancy spell check. Sometimes the passionate immediacy of an email overcomes its spelling limitations. Also, in this age once we are taught to respect each other's differences, it seems offensively egocentric and mean-spirited you may anticipate others tokowtow for a petty linguistic rules. Inspired term is going to cost-free by itself irrespective of how you are probably trying for you to shackle it. 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One time around a fantastic even though, when you buy neck-deep with dandified pomo hijinks, it really is a good wallow in the pig dog pen you happen to be itchin'for. Thank you so much, Jo. I really like both you and your ineffective clasping at similes in which can't tactic a bilious hate as part of your heart. That you are mine, and We are yours. Figuratively conversing, associated with course. And from now on the following is the evaluation: Macbeth through Bill Shakespeare is best literary function while in the British words, as well as anyone that disagrees can be an asshole and a dumbhead.