Love /

Few topics have been more central to so much creative literature than love, which can be defined in many different ways--platonic love, spiritual love, love of character, erotic love, love of family, and more. This volume explores the different kinds of love from various viewpoints, and examines wor...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Evans, Robert C., 1955- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ipswich, Massachusetts : Amenia, NY : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Grey House Publishing, [2022]
Series:Critical insights.
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Table of Contents:
  • About this volume / Robert C. Evans
  • On being in love, and on modern love / Jeremy Tambling
  • Masculine love at the fin-de-sïcle / Tracy Hayes
  • History of western love : an overview / Joyce Ahn
  • Fine Constantia wine : sacrificial love and eucatastrophe in Jane Austen's Sense and sensibility / Brandon Schneeberger
  • Love and chance in comedy and tragedy : Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Plautus's The rope / Edwin Wong
  • Sir Walter Ralegh's "Farewell, false love" : an experiment in pluralist criticism / Robert C. Evans
  • Othello and Desdemona : their love depicted in illustrations of Shakespeare's play / Rhianna Ragan
  • Love as a theme in Thomas Campion's poems with female speakers / Robert C. Evans
  • The 1970 film of Wuthering Heights : a survey of reviews / Jordan Bailey
  • The 1992 film of Wuthering Heights : a survey of reviews / Kelly Snyder
  • Forms of love and the question of passion in George Eliot's The mill on the floss / John Rignall
  • Stepping over the line for love : reflections on Robert Penn Warren / Steven D. Ealy
  • No love for the Jedi : the banishment and persistence of love in the Star Wars saga / S.G. Ellerhoff
  • Thom Gunn's "Lament" : beauty and love in a poem describing death from AIDS / Robert C. Evans
  • Sexuality and the psyche : kissing in Michael Cunningham's The hours / Sarah Fredericks
  • Additional works on love
  • Bibliography
  • About the editor
  • Contributors
  • Index.