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From folk tales to the latest best-sellers and films, we're diving deep into the complex allure of otherworldly lovers.

Table of Contents

00:00 Start!
01:35 Eros & Psyche -- Animal Bridegrooms
11:29 Loathy Ladies & Shapeshifting Maidens
22:17 The Sheik and the Other
32:50 Shape of Water
45:38 Ground News Ad
47:48 Credits


Works Cited & Reading List:

- Aguirre, A. (n.d.). "Tentacles & Triathlons."
- Bugge, J. (2004). "Fertility Myth and Female Sovereignty in 'The Weddynge of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle'." The Chaucer Review.
- Díaz de Arce, L. (n.d.). "Rhapsody in Blue Bodies: Primitive Desire in Ruby Dixon's Ice Planet Barbarians." Interstellar Flight Magazine and Medium.
- Feinstein, S. (n.d.). "Longevity and the Loathly Ladies in Three Medieval Romances." Literator.
- Hull, E.M. (1919). "The Sheik."
- Jenkins, H. (n.d.). "It's not a fairy tale anymore: Gender, Genre, Beauty and the Beast." JSTOR.
- Lee, L. J. (n.d.). "Guilty Pleasures: Reading Romance Novels as Reworked Fairy Tales." JSTOR.
- The Oriental Beast, The Sheik and Fairy Tales. (n.d.). Journal of Popular Romance Studies.
- The Sheik. (n.d.). Wikipedia.
- "Desirable Futures: Romance." (2019). Disability, Literature, Genre: Representation and Affect in Contemporary Fiction.

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