Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing Mimicking Masculinity and Femininity |
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| Author:
| Faktorovich, Anna |
| Designed by:
| Faktorovich, Anna |
| Prepared for Publication by:
| Anaphora Literary Press, |
| Editor:
| Lin, Emily |
| ISBN: | 978-1-68114-093-3 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2015 |
| Publisher: | Anaphora Literary Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $2.99 |
Book Description:
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"Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing: Mimicking Masculinity and Femininity": examines gender bias from the perspective of readers, writers and publishers, with a focus on the top two best-selling genres in modern fiction. It is a linguistic, literary stylistic, and structurally formalist analysis of the male and female "sentences" in the genres that have the greatest gender divide: romances and mysteries. The analysis will search for the historical roots that solidified...
More Description"Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing: Mimicking Masculinity and Femininity": examines gender bias from the perspective of readers, writers and publishers, with a focus on the top two best-selling genres in modern fiction. It is a linguistic, literary stylistic, and structurally formalist analysis of the male and female "sentences" in the genres that have the greatest gender divide: romances and mysteries. The analysis will search for the historical roots that solidified what many think of today as a "natural" division. Virginia Woolf called it the fabricated "feminine sentence," and other linguists have also identified clear sex-preferential differences in Anglo-American, Swedish and French novels. Do female mystery writers adopt a masculine voice when they write mysteries? Are female-penned mysteries structurally or linguistically different from their male competitors', and vice versa among male romance writers? The first part can be used as a textbook for gender stylistics, as it provides an in-depth review of prior research. The second part is an analysis of the results of a survey on readers' perception of gender in passages from literature. The last part is a linguistic and structural analysis of actual statistical differences between the novels in the two genres, considering the impact of the author's gender.