chick lit


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chick lit

books written expressly for girls and women
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chick lit

n. Informal
Literature intended to appeal primarily to women, especially books that emphasize human relationships and emotions rather than action or adventure.
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chick lit

n
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms)
a. a genre of fiction concentrating on young working women and their emotional lives
b. (as modifier): chick-lit romances.
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"Indian Chick Lit: A Genre For Desi Girls." International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL) 7 (2): 127-132.
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The term, Chick Lit begun in the 1990's is one I'd wish didn't exist but since it does, I wanted to examine why it irritates me so went back to the history of women's movements looking for insight.
A delightful debut that harks back to the early days of Chick Lit when heroines were flawed, funny, and forever battling for love and happiness.
Part whodunit, part chick lit, part ghost story, and all pure entertainment, it's a wickedly funny ride with a romantic undertone.
Chick lit Chick lit Album of the week The Prodigy - The Day Is My Enemy, PS8.99 ONCE the hyper industrial rock title track explodes into existence, it indicates The Day Is My Enemy will be The Prodigy's most relentless and abrasive album to date.
This introductory text surveys historical contexts and genres of popular fiction--the Victorian context and 20th century, science fiction, crime writing, romance and chick lit, adventure stories and lad-lit, horror, graphic novels, and children's literature--followed by case studies of major writers and texts: H.G.
Novelty underpants, dodgy perfumes and chick lit have been described as the country's most "rubbish" presents.
"[E]ven if the writing is far superior to that commonly associated with commercial fiction, the novel's flippant tone--and the fact that it never really probes very far beneath the surface of what the characters are thinking--makes it read like a more highbrow version of chick lit. ...
As Kapish Mehra, managing director of Rupa Publications points out, "Earlier an average book of fiction used to sell 5,000 copies to make it a bestseller, chick lit ( or lad lit as in the case of Bhagat) has changed all that.
Dit wil soms voorkom of chick lit die literere ekwivalent van popmusiek is.