The 23-page document I've been able to link to contains only an index and a summary: it is not the full thesis.
The study is limited to the analysis of nine romance novels, but it leads the way to seeing romance through a cognitively informed literary criticism. There has not been a prior application of Cognitive Literary Science to the genre of romance or to contemporary romance, so the path in this direction is a novel one.
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Those nine novels are:
1. Armas, Elena. 2021. The Spanish Love Deception. Simon and Schuster. UK. 2. Hazelwood, Ali. 2022. Love on the Brain. Sphere. United States. 3. Henry, Emily. 2021. You and Me on Vacation. Penguin. UK. USA. 4. Hoang, Helen. 2019. The Bride Test. Penguin. New York. 5. Hoover, Colleen. 2016. It Ends with Us. Simon and Schuster. USA. 6. Hoover, Colleen. 2022. Remainders [sic] of Him. Montlake. Seattle. 7. McQuiston, Casey. 2019. Red, White & Royal Blue. Macmillan. USA. UK. 8. Painter, Lynn. 2021. Better than the movies. Simon and Schuster. USA 9. Robb, Kate. 2023. This Spells Love. Penguin. UK. USA.
The 23-page document I've been able to link to contains only an index and a summary: it is not the full thesis.
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Those nine novels are: