Add to ORKGChicklit - a genre descriptionChicklit is one of the most controversial genres of the last decade. This article interprets the kinship terms of the genre by analysing selected named chicklit novels from different points of view, and gives suggestions as to the ideas and aesthetic strategies of the genre. By descriptions of protagonists, plot, narrator and style and their references to shapes of mass culture a kinship with postmodernist fiction is depicted. The article point out that chicklit foregrounds questions about gender constructions. Through settings of everyday performance and literary strategies of the comic and the ironic the genre reactivates agendas of middleclass feminism. In conclusion chicklit seems to be a new kind of post f...
The purpose of this Master’s thesis is to examine how the gender system is described in chick lit. T...
My thesis deals with the novel Ladies, written in 2007 by the Swedish author Mara Lee. When publish...
In the last 10 years popular publishing has been transformed by the development of a number of new g...
Chick lit, a subgenre of women\u27s fiction, has been commercially popular for a decade, yet academi...
Chick Lit, a particular genre of popfiction known as ‘postfeminist fiction’, provides an excellent...
Chick lit, just as other formulaic genres, is often dismissed in literary criticism, despite its app...
The intersection of postfeminist arguments with popular culture and popular cultural forms is of gre...
This paper attempts to establish that the zeitgeist emerges from trends of the times and imprinted o...
Women authors are accepted as valued (marketable) contributors to genre fiction and they are welcome...
This dissertation examines the anxieties that the contemporary genre of women’s fiction known as "ch...
There are a number of similarities between popular culture and women's writing: both have been dismi...
In the literary world, women’s literature has traditionally been excluded from the canon of prominen...
Many have criticised Chick Lit novels such as Sex and the City for being anti-feminist; however, I s...
In the economic struggle, literary or rather, publishing overproduction has turned a book among othe...
The present master’s thesis explores the chick lit genre in light of traditional standards of litera...
The purpose of this Master’s thesis is to examine how the gender system is described in chick lit. T...
My thesis deals with the novel Ladies, written in 2007 by the Swedish author Mara Lee. When publish...
In the last 10 years popular publishing has been transformed by the development of a number of new g...
Chick lit, a subgenre of women\u27s fiction, has been commercially popular for a decade, yet academi...
Chick Lit, a particular genre of popfiction known as ‘postfeminist fiction’, provides an excellent...
Chick lit, just as other formulaic genres, is often dismissed in literary criticism, despite its app...
The intersection of postfeminist arguments with popular culture and popular cultural forms is of gre...
This paper attempts to establish that the zeitgeist emerges from trends of the times and imprinted o...
Women authors are accepted as valued (marketable) contributors to genre fiction and they are welcome...
This dissertation examines the anxieties that the contemporary genre of women’s fiction known as "ch...
There are a number of similarities between popular culture and women's writing: both have been dismi...
In the literary world, women’s literature has traditionally been excluded from the canon of prominen...
Many have criticised Chick Lit novels such as Sex and the City for being anti-feminist; however, I s...
In the economic struggle, literary or rather, publishing overproduction has turned a book among othe...
The present master’s thesis explores the chick lit genre in light of traditional standards of litera...
The purpose of this Master’s thesis is to examine how the gender system is described in chick lit. T...
My thesis deals with the novel Ladies, written in 2007 by the Swedish author Mara Lee. When publish...
In the last 10 years popular publishing has been transformed by the development of a number of new g...