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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 kind of loathe how we've entered the decadent stage of Goodreads when possibly fifty % (or more) of the reviews written by non-teenagers and non-romancers are now naked and unabashed inside their variously effective attempts at being posture, wry, meta, parodic, confessional, and/or snarky? Don't you sort of wood (secretly, in the marrow of one's gut's merry druthers) for the good ol'times of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all reviews were evenly plainspoke Don't you type of loathe how we've entered the decadent phase of Goodreads when perhaps fifty per cent (or more) of the evaluations published by non-teenagers and non-romancers are now actually nude and unabashed inside their variously powerful attempts at being arch, wry, meta, parodic, confessional, and/or snarky? Do not you sort of wood (secretly, in the marrow of one's gut's merry druthers) for the great ol'days of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all opinions were evenly plainspoken, merely functional, unpretentious, and -- above all else -- boring, boring, boring? Do not you type of loathe when persons claim'don't you believe in this manner or experience that way'in an effort to goad you equally psychologically and grammatically into agreeing together? In the language of ABBA: I actually do, I do, I do(, I do, I do). Effectively, as the interwebs is just a world by which yesteryear stands shoulder-to-shoulder with today's (and with fetish porn), we are able to revisit days gone by in its inviolable presentness any time we wish. Or at the very least until this site finally tanks. Consider (won't you?) Matt Nieberle's review of Macbeth in its entirety. I've bound it with huge rope and drawn it here for the perusal. (Please recognize that several a sic are recommended in the following reviews.) their really difficult and stupid! why cant we be examining like Romeo and Juliet?!?! at least that guide is good! There you've it. Refreshingly, not a evaluation written in among the witch's sounds or alluding to Hillary and Bill Clinton or discussing the reviewer's first period. Just a primal scream unleashed in to the black wilderness of the cosmos.Yes, Mr. Nieberle is (probably) a teen, but I admire his capability to strongarm the temptation to be clever or ironic. (Don't you?) He speaks the native language of the idk generation having an economy and a quality that renders his convictions much more emphatic. Here's MICHAEL's report on exactly the same play. You could'know'MICHAEL; he is the'Problems Architect'here at Goodreads. (A problematic title itself in that it implies he designs problems... which can be the case, for many I know.) This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that that you do not want to see is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to start with, if it absolutely was supposed to be read, then it would have been a novel, not a play. On top of that the teach had us students read the play aloud (on person for every character for a few pages). None folks 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 appeared to be they weren't paying attention. All of this compounded to create me virtually hate reading classics for something similar to 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. Plus 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 see a play then you have sinned and are going to hell, in the event that you rely on hell. If not, you're likely to the DMV. I am also tired of all you could smug spelling snobs. You damnable fascists together with your new-fangled dictionaries and your fancy-schmancy spell check. Sometimes the passionate immediacy of a message overcomes its spelling limitations. Also, in this age when we are taught to respect each other's differences, this indicates offensively egocentric and mean-spirited you may anticipate others tokowtow for a small linguistic rules. Artistic term is going to totally free by itself regardless of how you are probably trying to help shackle it. That's your own cue, Aubrey. Throughout our opinion, your play Macbeth was a worste peice at any time provided by Shakespeare, which is saying a reasonable amount thinking about furthermore, i go through his / her Romeo as well as Juliet. Ontop of it is really by now fabulous story, impracticable people and also absolutly discusting set of morals, Shakespeare publicly molds Girl Macbeth because the legitimate vilian inside the play. Contemplating the girl with mearly the particular style around the rear circular and also Macbeth him or her self is usually truely enacting the actual gruesome criminal offenses, like hard and scam, I would not realize why it is so simple to believe that Macbeth would be willing to do excellent as opposed to nasty if perhaps his / her girl ended up a lot more possitive. I do think that it have fun with is actually uterally unrealistic. Nevertheless the examples below is your ne additionally extra of traditional book reviewing. While succinct along with with virtually no stealing attention interest to coyness as well as cuteness, Jo's critique alludes to some anger and so profound it's inexpressible. One particular imagines some Signet Basic Models compromised to help pieces with pruning shears with Jo's vicinity. I hate this particular play. So much in fact in which I cannot actually provide you with almost any analogies or similes concerning the amount My partner and i despise it. A incrementally snarkier variety might have said some thing like...'I personally don't like that play as being a simile I cannot arise with.' Not really Jo. The lady addresses a new natural, undecorated simple fact unfit with regard to figurative language. As well as there's certainly no problem by using that. When inside an awesome even though, once you get neck-deep inside dandified pomo hijinks, it is really a pleasant wallow from the pig compose you happen to be itchin'for. Appreciate it, Jo. I adore anyone with a ineffective holding with similes this are not able to solution a bilious hatred inside your heart. That you are acquire, plus We're yours. Figuratively chatting, connected with course. And after this the following is my personal critique: Macbeth by way of Bill Shakespeare is the greatest literary perform within the Language dialect, along with anyone that disagrees is surely an asshole and also a dumbhead.