paratext

settings

marriage

Bettinotti, Julia Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène Gagnon, Jocelyn Noizet, Pascale Provost, Christiane (1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

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Bigey, Magali (2012) Romances en séries, amour toujours et marketing Le Temps des Médias 19:87-100

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France

Billekens, Franciska (2021) The Editor and Translator's Passionate Embrace: Cultural and Linguistic Alterations in Translated Harlequin Category Romance Novels Masters, Radboud University

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translation

Bilodeau, Isabelle (2022) How Romance Translators Write Themselves and Their Readers into Afterwords Departmental Bulletin Paper 47:81-98

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translation

Japan

Linz, Cathie Bouricius, Ann Byrnes, Carole (1995) Exploring the World of Romance Novels Public Libraries 34.3:144–151

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Bowring, Joanna O’Brien, Margaret (2008) The Art of Romance: Mills & Boon and Harlequin Cover Designs Munich: Prestel

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Brackett, Kim Pettigrew (2000) Facework Strategies Among Romance Fiction Readers The Social Science Journal 37.3:347-360

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psychology

Brown, Eleanor M. (2001) Romance Novel of One's Own: The Nature and "Failure" of the Lesbian Romance Sub-Genre Master of Arts, West Chester University

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Brown, Sonya C. (2011) Does This Book Make Me Look Fat? Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.2:

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Burge, Amy (2012) " Do Knights Still Rescue Damsels in Distress?: Reimagining the Medieval in the Mills & Boon Historical Romance " The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction 95-114

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history

social class

food, drink

fashion/clothing

sex/sexuality

war/armed forces

Linz, Cathie Bouricius, Ann Byrnes, Carole (1995) Exploring the World of Romance Novels Public Libraries 34.3:144–151

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Carlos, Giovana Santana (2021) " Literatura pop feminina: as fãs de romance no Brasil " Comunicação e Culturas Urbanas: temas, debates e perspectivas 189-216

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Brazil

Castagna, JoAnn Radespiel, Robin L. (1990) " Making Rape Romantic: A Study of Rosemary Rogers' "Steve and Ginny" Novels " Women and Violence in Literature: An Essay Collection 299-325

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Charles, John Linz, Cathie (2005) Romancing Your Readers: How Public Libraries Can Become More Romance Reader Friendly Public Libraries 44.1:43–48

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emotions

Chivers, Marian (2014) The Warrior Woman in Contemporary Romance Fiction Masters, Federation University Australia

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war/armed forces

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Copy, Christine (2015) C’est une femme qui vous parle: à propos de quelques caractéristiques du discours rapporté dans les romans sentimentaux de la collection Harlequin en anglais Le discours et la langue 7.1:141-152

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Davis, Mary Louise (1986) Romances and the Modern Ms.: a Study of Contemporary (Line) Romances, 1980-1984 PhD, University of Southern California

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Duranti, Daniela (2008) Le soglie del genere: identità femminile e modelli semiotici nel paratesto editoriale ,

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Fisher, Maryanne L. Meredith, Tami M. (2012) The Success behind the Candy-Colored Covers: An Evolutionary Perspective on Romance Novels Evolutionary Review 3.1:154-167

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Fisher, Maryanne L. Meredith, Tami M. (2021) Evolutionary and sociocultural themes in cover art on Harlequin romance novels: A temporal analysis Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

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Flesch, Juliet (1996) A Labour of Love? Compiling a Bibliography of Twentieth Century Australian Romance Novels Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services 9.3-4:170-178

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Flesch, Juliet (1996) A Labour of Love? The Story Behind the Compilation of Love Brought to Book: A Bio-bibliography of 20th Century Australian Romance Novels Australian Academic & Research Libraries 27.3:182-190

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Fletcher, Lisa McAlister, Jodi Temple, Kurt Williams, Kathleen (2019) #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 11.1:

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Australia

Bettinotti, Julia Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène Gagnon, Jocelyn Noizet, Pascale Provost, Christiane (1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

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Gerlitz, Laura Michelle (2019) Judging a Book By Its Cover: Bringing the Digital Humanities into Reader’s Advisory MA thesis, University of Alberta

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Gillespie, Diane F. (2004) Virginia Woolf and the Curious Case of Berta Ruck Woolf Studies Annual 10:109-138

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Berta Ruck

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Gleason, William A. (2016) " Postbellum, Pre-Harlequin: American Romance Publishing in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 57-70

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romances in magazines and newspapers

United States of America

Lucille Hollis

Charlotte M. Brame

Goris, An (2009) " Romance the World Over " Global Cultures 59-72

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translation

Goris, An (2011) From Romance to Roberts and Back Again: genre, authorship and the construction of textual identity in contemporary popular romance novels PhD, University of Leuven

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Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

authors

genre definitions

romantic suspense

Goris, An (2015) Hidden Codes of Love: The Materiality of the Category Romance Novel Belphégor 13.1:

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Greenfeld-Benovitz, Miriam (2014) " The Interactive Romance Community: The Case of "Covers Gone Wild" " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 195-205

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community

Guiley, Rosemary (1983) Love Lines: The Romance Reader's Guide to Printed Pleasures New York: Facts on File

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Hague, Euan Stenhouse, David (2007) " A Very Interesting Place: Representing Scotland in American Romance Novels " The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature 354-361

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Hashim, Ruzy Suliza Hamdan, Shahizah Ismail (2010) Facets of Women in Malay Romance Fiction Kunapipi 32.1:67-79

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Hashim, Ruzy Suliza Hamdan, Shahizah Ismail (2010) Facets of Women in Malay Romance Fiction Kunapipi 32.1:67-79

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Helgorsky, Françoise (1987) Harlequin : l'unité dans la diversité et vice-versa Pratiques: linguistique, littérature, didactique 54:5-19

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settings

Henderson, Courtney R. (2007) Ladies and Loners: A Comparative Gender Study of the Romance and Popular Western Master of Arts, University of Texas at Arlington

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Johanna Lindsey

Joan Johnston

settings

Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace

historical romance

Hendricks, Margo (2022) " How a Black Author Found Her Romance History " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 95-120

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

teaching romance

Jarmakani, Amira (2011) Desiring the Big Bad Blade: Racing the Sheikh in Desert Romances American Quarterly 63.4:895-928

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United States of America

Islam

Spain

Fabio Lanzoni, also known as Fabio

Jensen, Margaret Ann (1984) Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story Toronto: The Women's Educational Press

Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. (1999) " "I Am Not a Bimbo": Persona, Promotion, and the Fabulous Fabio " Romantic Conventions 35-50

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Johnson-Woods, Toni (2004) Pulp: A Collector's Book of Australian Pulp Fiction Covers Canberra: National Library of Australia

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Kamble, Jayashree (2008) Uncovering and Recovering the Popular Romance Novel PhD, University of Minnesota

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Kamblé, Jayashree (2016) " Branding a Genre: A Brief Transatlantic History of Romance Novel Cover Art " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 241-272

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historical romance

Kamblé, Jayashree (2021) " Romance in the media " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 269-293 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-12

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genre definitions

sex/sexuality

Kinsale, Laura (1992) " The Androgynous Reader: Point of View in the Romance " Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance 31-44

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Lamy, Odile (1997) La représentation du couple à travers les pages couvertures des romans Harlequin Cahiers de la recherche en éducation 4.2:269–297

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Lencevičienė, Lina (2011) Selected Problems of Translation of the Romance Genre: Analysis of Barbara Cartland's Romance Novel Bewitched Translation into Lithuanian Masters, Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas

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Lessard, Victoria (2017) Marketing Desire: The "Normative/Other" Male Body and the "Pure" White Female Body on the Cover Art of Cassie Edwards' Savage Dream (1990), Savage Persuasion (1991), and Savage Mists (1992) MA thesis, McGill University

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Cassie Edwards

Native American romance

historical romance

Liffen, Jane (2008) "A very Glamorized Picture, that": Images of Scottish Female Herring Workers on Romance Novel Covers Social Semiotics 18.3:349-361

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psychology

Linz, Cathie Bouricius, Ann Byrnes, Carole (1995) Exploring the World of Romance Novels Public Libraries 34.3:144–151

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Charles, John Linz, Cathie (2005) Romancing Your Readers: How Public Libraries Can Become More Romance Reader Friendly Public Libraries 44.1:43–48

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emotions

Luneau, Marie-Pier (2008) « Tant d’amour à donner »: Le biographique, l’œuvre, et la figure de l’auteur Harlequin COnTEXTES 3:

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authors

family

Warren, Jean-Philippe Luneau, Marie-Pier (2021) The Best Romance Dime Novels on the (French-Canadian) Market: The Promotional Strategies of Police-Journal, 1944-1963 Journal of Popular Romance Studies 10:

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Fletcher, Lisa McAlister, Jodi Temple, Kurt Williams, Kathleen (2019) #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 11.1:

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Australia

McAlister, Jodi (2021) New Adult Fiction Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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McDavis-Conway, Shana (2022) Self-conscious, unapologetic, and straight: fat protagonists in romantic fiction Fat Studies ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

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fat, fatness

McKnight-Trontz, Jennifer (2002) The Look of Love: The Art of the Romance Novel New York: Princeton Architectural Press

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Pupipat, Apisak Rungkaew, Titirut Meeparp, Lampoon (2022) Judging a Book by its Back Cover: Spoken/Informal Register as Found in Happily-Ever-After Women’s Novel Blurbs Journal of Studies in the English Language 17.2:1–31

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Fisher, Maryanne L. Meredith, Tami M. (2012) The Success behind the Candy-Colored Covers: An Evolutionary Perspective on Romance Novels Evolutionary Review 3.1:154-167

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Topic

Mirmohamadi, Kylie (2015) Love on the Land: Australian Rural Romance in Place English Studies 96.2:204-224

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Montague, Holly W. (1994) " From Interlude in Arcady to Daphnis and Chloe: Two Thousand Years of Erotic Fantasy " The Search for the Ancient Novel 391-401

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feminism

Heliodorus

Motte, Warren (2012) A Walk on the Sheikh Side Formes Poétiques Contemporaines 9:119-134

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sheikh romance

Sharon Kendrick

animals

metaphor/symbolism

Naber, Christine Marie (1995) Rape myths are the theory--romance novels are the practice: The impact of exposure to images of women in popular culture PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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psychology

Nobert, Margo (1983) Le titre comme séduction dans le roman Harlequin: une lecture sociosémiotique Études littéraires 16.3:379–398

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Bettinotti, Julia Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène Gagnon, Jocelyn Noizet, Pascale Provost, Christiane (1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

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Osborne, Gwendolyn E. (2003) " In Search of Women Who Look Like Me: A Brief History of the African-American Romance " The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference 2020-2044

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Osborne, Gwendolyn E. (2004) " "Women Who Look Like Me": Cultural Identity and Reader Responses to African American Romance Novels " Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers 61-68

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United States of America

Owen, Mairead (1997) Re-inventing romance: Reading popular romantic fiction Women's Studies International Forum 20.4:537-546

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Bowring, Joanna O’Brien, Margaret (2008) The Art of Romance: Mills & Boon and Harlequin Cover Designs Munich: Prestel

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Paizis, George (1998) Love and the Novel: The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Fiction Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan

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Parameswaran, Radhika (2002) Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 52.4:832-851

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Petersson, Sara Söderberg, Daniel (2014) En berättelse tar form - en studie i hur geometrisk form på bokomslag indikerar populärlitterär genre Bachelor, Linköping University

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Philips, Deborah (1990) " Mills and Boon: The Marketing of Moonshine " Consumption, Identity, and Style: Marketing, Meanings, and the Packaging of Pleasure 139-152

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Mary Ward/Mrs. Humphry Ward

Potter, Jane (2005) Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918 Oxford: Clarendon Press

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war/armed forces

Ruby M. Ayres

Berta Ruck

national identity

Bettinotti, Julia Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène Gagnon, Jocelyn Noizet, Pascale Provost, Christiane (1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

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Topic

Pupipat, Apisak (2023) Should a Book Be Judged by its Back Cover? Some Written/Formal Features as Observed in Happily- Ever-After Women’s Novel Blurbs LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network 16.1:604-630

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Castagna, JoAnn Radespiel, Robin L. (1990) " Making Rape Romantic: A Study of Rosemary Rogers' "Steve and Ginny" Novels " Women and Violence in Literature: An Essay Collection 299-325

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Rani, Mohd. Zariat Abdul (2012) Islam, Romance and Popular Taste in Indonesia: A textual analysis of Ayat ayat cinta by Habiburrahman El-Shirazy and Syahadat cinta by Taufiqurrahman Al-Azizy Indonesia and the Malay World 40.116:59-73

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Indonesia

Habiburrahman El-Shirazy

Taufiqurrahman Al-Azizy

Islam

Rani, Mohd. Zariat Abdul (2014) The Conflict of Love and Islam: The Main Ingredients in the Popular Islamic Novels of Malaysia South East Asia Research 22.3:417-433

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Malaysia

Islam

Romney, Rebecca (2021) The Romance Novel in English: A Survey in Rare Books, 1769-1999 : Type Punch Matrix

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

YA/teenage romance

Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

Judaism

Pauline Hopkins

Kathleen Thompson Norris

romances in magazines and newspapers

Elizabeth Carfrae

Frances Shelley Wees

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Alice Lent Covert

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton

Della Field, pseudonym of Fanny Howe

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

science fiction/futuristic romance

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Marisa de Zavala/Ana Lisa de Leon/Rachel Scott/Celina Rios Mullan

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Tracy West/Joyce McGill/Chassie West

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Short, Christopher Brown (1996) The history of romance illustration and the romance novel cover MA thesis, Syracuse University

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Petersson, Sara Söderberg, Daniel (2014) En berättelse tar form - en studie i hur geometrisk form på bokomslag indikerar populärlitterär genre Bachelor, Linköping University

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Soler Gallo, Miguel (2016) " El ideal de la mujer de la Sección Femenina de Falange a través de las ilustraciones de la novela rosa de los años cuarenta " Images of Women in Hispanic Culture 48-73

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fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Spain

Carmen de Icaza

Spears, Jessica D. (2018) The Romance Novel Cover MA thesis, City University of New York (CUNY), Hunter College

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