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Janice Radway's Reading the Romance does not exactly read like a romance. In contrast to the typical reading experience of the romance novel, it is difficult to go through Reading the Romance at one stretch. The text contains too many fragments which compel its reader to stop, to reread, to put the book aside in order to gauge and digest the assertions madein short, to adopt an analytical position vis-a-vis the text. Contrary to what happens, as Radway sees it, in the case of romance novels, the value and pleasure of this reading experience does not primarily lie in its creation of a general sense of emotional well-being and visceral contentment (p. 70). Rather, Reading the Romance has left me, as one of its enthusiastic readers, with a feeling of tension that forces me to problematize its project, to ask questions about the kind of intervention Radway has tried to make in writing the book. Such questions generally do not present themselves to romance readers when they have just finished a particularly satisfying version of the romance genre. Radway has argued convincingly that it is precisely a release of tension that makes romance reading a particularly pleasurable activity
Camera Obscura – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 1988
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