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dc.contributor.advisorChairperson, Graduate Committee: Amy Thomasen
dc.contributor.authorMoorman, Taylor Leighen
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-25T18:37:52Z
dc.date.available2013-06-25T18:37:52Z
dc.date.issued2011en
dc.identifier.urihttps://scholarworks.montana.edu/xmlui/handle/1/1899en
dc.description.abstractImmersed in the fantasy worlds of fairy tales and popular romance novels, this project explores the experience of reading for pleasure. Using the fairy tale, "Beauty and the Beast" as well as its retelling in popular romance format in Linda Jones' Debuty and the Beast, my work explores the tension and enjoyment of being a reader of romance while simultaneously internalizing the literary hierarchy that can relegate pleasure to the bottom of the value system. Ultimately, this thesis seeks out the places and times between the concrete, the literary seams amidst the defined limitations of what we think we know, and reexamines the value of pleasure and play for readers of the romance genre.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherMontana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Scienceen
dc.subject.lcshBooks and readingen
dc.subject.lcshPleasureen
dc.subject.lcshBeauty and the beast (Tale)en
dc.titleBlurring boundaries : pleasures of popular romanceen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2011 by Taylor Leigh Moormanen
thesis.catalog.ckey1823729en
thesis.degree.committeemembersMembers, Graduate Committee: Linda Karell; Robelt Bennetten
thesis.degree.departmentEnglish.en
thesis.degree.genreThesisen
thesis.degree.nameMAen
thesis.format.extentfirstpage1en
thesis.format.extentlastpage83en


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