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First up in the final Romance session at #PopCAANZ18: Eric Selinger on disenchantment, modern love, and romance fiction.
Selinger: what makes modern love problematic? Illouz borrows from Weber and says it is a "disenchanted thing". #popcaanz18
Selinger notes the role of "technologies of choice" in happy endings (eg. marriage can be a happy ending if divorce is possible). #PopCAANZ18
First up at #popcaanz18 this morning: @MTRamosGarcia, talking about Jane the Virgin, metafiction and bilingualism.
Ramos-Garcia: one of the more original features of Jane the Virgin is the omniscient meta-fictional narrator, playing into the tropes of the telenovela. #PopCAANZ18
Ramos-Garcia: the script calls him the "ubiquitous Latin lover narrator". #PopCAANZ18
First #popcaanz18 Romance panel post-lunch begins with Ellen Carter, comparing hero/ine's names in M/F vs M/M romance fiction.
Carter's corpus contains 2536 contemporary romance novels, about one third M/M, two thirds M/F, where she studied the phonology of hero/ine names.
Carter: male names in both corpora are more likely to be monosyllabic, especially in M/F romance. #popcaanz18
First up in Romance at #popcaanz18: @DonnaMHanson, speaking to her survey results about the interactions of romance fiction and feminism.
Hanson had about 200 writers and 600 readers respond to her survey - a really rich dataset! #popcaanz18
Hanson: 47% of respondents wrote contemporary, and the genre they most preferred to read outside romance was crime. #popcaanz18
