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Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance By:"Alex Davis" Published on 2003 by DS Brewer A reinterpretation of the place and significance of chivalric culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and what it says about contemporary attitudes to the medieval. This Book was ranked 39 by Google Books for keyword romance.

Love By:"Robert C. Solomon" Published on by Prometheus Books Love - our hearts yearn for it, we fall into it or out of it, we'll do almost anything to attain and keep it. Those who have experienced the power of love whirl from its embrace. It is delicious anguish, gut-wrenching pain, and intoxicating allure. Nations go to war over it, crimes are committed to satisfy its demands, lives are often ruined because of it, and extraordinary feats of courage and sacrifice are performed in its name. But beyond the cliches and greeting card platitudes, do we really understand what love is, and how it alters the way we think, feel, and behave?Should love be viewed as little more than a lusty romp, or is there more to it? What is the relationship between love and romance, caring, concern, compassion, thoughtfulness, sex, and the many other components that our society jumbles together in this potent potpourri whose power can give strength to the weakest among us, or turn powerhouses ...

Women and Romance By:"Susan Ostrov Weisser" Published on 2001-07-01 by NYU Press Romantic love has challenged and vexed feminist thought from its origins. Judging from the shelves of books advising women on love problems, there seems to be an ongoing difficulty in maintaining equality in romantic relationships. Does romance weaken or empower women? Why do women seem overwhelmingly attracted to romantic love in spite of raised consciousness in other areas of life that is a legacy of feminism? Have women always been seen as the sex which most seeks love and is best suited for love? These are some of the questions Women and Romance: A Reader seeks to address in bringing together a collection of texts specifically focused on the subject of women's conflicted but powerful urge to experience the pleasure and endure the pain of romantic love. The first anthology of its kind, Women and Romance includes historical as well as contemporary selections, personal letters as well as the...

Romance of the Road By:"Ronald Primeau" Published on 1996 by Popular Press \ This Book was ranked 25 by Google Books for keyword romance.

Abjection, Melancholia, and Love By:"John Fletcher","Andrew Benjamin" Published on 2012 by Routledge This volume begins with a new essay by Julia Kristeva, 'The Adolescent Novel', in which she examines the relation between novelistic writing and the experience of adolescence as an 'open structure'. It is this blend of the literary with the psychoanalytic that places Kristeva's work central to current thinking, from semiotics and critical theory to feminism and psychoanalysis. The essays in this volume offer insight into the workings of Kristeva's thought, ranging from her analyses of sexual difference, female temporality and the perceptions of the body to the mental states of abjection and melancholia, and their representation in painting and literature. Kristeva's persistent humanity, her profound understanding of the dynamics of intention and creativity, mark her out as one of the leading theoreticians of desire. Each essay offers the r...

Love and Other Emotions By:"Jason W. Brown" Published on 2012 by Karnac Books This book is an account of the psychology of romantic love in the context of a theory of emotions. The account develops out of studies in brain psychology and the extension to topics in process-philosophy, such as the nature of value and belief, and the central role of feeling in mental process. The approach is subjectivist, that is, from the internal standpoint, and in this respect it differs greatly from the externalist and objectivist trends in modern cognitive science and empiricist philosophy. Love is the ultimate in value, so that a theory of love is also a theory of the nature of value and its relation to feeling, belief, and to drive and desire. The role of intention, reason, and appraisal is critiqued. The relation to other feelings, such as jealousy, envy, anger, loss and grief is discussed in terms of a general theory of emotion and the basis in a process account of the mind/brain state. ...

Understanding Genre and Medieval Romance By:"Kevin Sean Whetter" Published on 2008 by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. Unique in combining a comprehensive and comparative study of genre with a study of romance, this book constitutes a significant contribution to ongoing critical debates over the definition of romance and the genre and artistry of Malory's Morte Darthur. K.S. Whetter addresses the questions of how exactly romance might be defined and how such an awareness of genre impacts upon both the understanding and reception of the texts in question. This Book was ranked 24 by Google Books for keyword romance.

The Spirit of Romance By:"Ezra Pound","Richard Sieburth" Published on 2005 by New Directions Publishing Written in 1910 when Pound was only 25 years old, and later revised by the author, this critical work has long stood as an important stage in the development of Pound's poetics, and a dramatic revaluation of Europe's literary tradition. Pound surveys the course of literature from the fall of the Roman Empire through the dawn of the Renaissance, paying special attention to the Proven?al poets and to Dante. Now with an introduction by Richard Sieburth, this work illuminates a great period in European literature and one of America's greatest poetic minds. This Book was ranked 38 by Google Books for keyword romance.

Romance Fiction By:"Kristin Ramsdell" Published on 2012 by ABC-CLIO Presents a comprehensive guide for librarians and readers' advisors, provides a brief history of the romance novel, and offers reading lists and subgenre definitions. This Book was ranked 16 by Google Books for keyword romance.

Northrop Frye's Notebooks on Romance By:"Northrop Frye","Michael Dolzani" Published on 2004 by University of Toronto Press Romance was a theme that ran through much of Northrop Frye's corpus, and his notebooks and typed notes on the subject are plentiful. This unpublished material, written between 1944 and 1989, traces a remarkable re-evaluation in his thinking over the course of time. As a young scholar, Frye insisted that romance was an expression of cultural decadence; however, in his later years, he thought of it as \ This Book was ranked 33 by Google Books for keyword romance.

Talk of Love By:"Ann Swidler" Published on 2001 by University of Chicago Press This text seeks to understand how the American culture of love shapes what people expect from love and what they actually find. The problem it seems is that people face a diverse culture with multiple perspectives and competing experts. American culture speaks of love that is perfect and instantaneous and yet it also talks of the constant need to improve relationships. \ This Book was ranked 29 by Google Books for keyword love.

Love and Will By:"Rollo May" Published on 2007 by W. W. Norton & Company An exploration of the dilemma of modern man focusing on his failure to appreciate the meanings of love and will. This Book was ranked 26 by Google Books for keyword love.

Love & Theft By:"Eric Lott" Published on 2013-07-10 by Oxford University Press For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show appropriated black dialect, music, and dance; at once applauded and lampooned black culture; and, ironically, contributed to a \ This Book was ranked 17 by Google Books for keyword love.

Love By:"Simon May","Departmental Fellow in Philosophy Simon May" Published on 2011 by Yale University Press Love--unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally accepting--is worshipped today as the West's only universal religion. To challenge it is one of our few remaining taboos. In this pathbreaking and superbly written book, philosopher Simon May does just that, dissecting our resilient ruling ideas of love and showing how they are the product of a long and powerful cultural heritage. Tracing over 2,500 years of human thought and history, May shows how our ideal of love developed from its Hebraic and Greek origins alongside Christianity until, during the last two centuries, \ This Book was ranked 18 by Google Books for keyword love.

Love and Saint Augustine By:"Hannah Arendt","Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott","Judith Chelius Stark" Published on 1996-02-01 by University of Chicago Press Hannah Arendt began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine's concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence of Martin Heidegger. After her German academic life came to a halt in 1933, Arendt carried her dissertation into exile in France, and years later took the same battered and stained copy to New York. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, as she was completing or reworking her most influential studies of political life, Arendt was simultaneously annotating and revising her dissertation on Augustine, amplifying its argument with terms and concepts she was using in her political works of the same period. The disseration became a bridge over which Arendt traveled back and forth between 1929 Heidelberg and 1960s New York, carryin...

Book Love By:"Penny Kittle" Published on 2012-10-26 by Heinemann Educational Books Presents strategies for getting students to read, and offers advice on building a school culture around a love of reading, helping students deepen their understanding of what they read, and balancing independent reading and text study. This Book was ranked 2 by Google Books for keyword love.

The Simple Truth About Love By:"Bradley Trevor Greive" Published on 2005-11-01 by Andrews McMeel Publishing What more can you possibly say about love? Leave it to Bradley Trevor Greive to cut through centuries of words that examine this universal emotion to present both the sum and substance of love in a way that will touch readers' hearts. As he's done in 10 previous titles with us - from The Blue Day Book to Dear Dad - Bradley combines his uncomplicated wording and unique viewpoint in a way that appeals to readers everywhere. The Simple Truth About Love explores this driving sentiment throughout its many nuances, while recognizing the elements that make it such an incredibly wonderful part of our lives. Helping along the way, of course, are the individually selected animal photographs that perfectly convey the ideas that Bradley presents. From the chick sheltered beneath his mother's wing to the cubs locked in joyous embrace, the images make this book a delight ...

Your Love Path By: Published on 2009 by Joe Beam This Book was ranked 36 by Google Books for keyword love.

Desire/Love By:"Lauren Berlant" Published on 2012 by punctum books \ This Book was ranked 14 by Google Books for keyword love.