Letters to the Romance World

My Journey into Romance Studies 202

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Week Twelve: Parallels in Augualusa’s “The Society of Reluctant Dreamers”

    For my penultimate blog post, I found myself reading Agualusa’s text closely to find overlap on the various themes found across the course readings. Memory is something which we looked closely at in all the readings—the certainty of events, and the unreliable narration which so often leads to the label of fiction for the stories. […]

Week Four: Killing Convention in Bombal’s “The Shrouded Woman”

    “The Shrouded Woman,” for all its experiments in structure and style, is perhaps most notable for its show of just how far perspective can go by providing the most unorthodox viewpoint: that of a body in a coffin, briefly suspended between life and death. The piece is comprised of social commentary, including but not limited […]

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