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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Love stories"”.
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Judith and the Head of Holofernes and Other Love Stories
<p>This thesis is a collection of stories written and revised over the last two years in the Fiction Workshops at The University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers. It is the author's intent that this collection shows her progress in the art of fiction writing while at the Center for …
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True love stories : the tropical production and authorization of meaning
The reason that modern love is not postmodern is that it insists on being psychological. The reason that sociology treats of love so poorly is that it insists on not being poststructuralist. This project inverts this double steadfastness, in order to sociologize love as a production of its own …
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Special relationships: Anglo-American love affairs, courtships and marriages in fiction, 1821-1914
Special Relationships examines depictions of love affairs, courtships and marriages between British and American characters in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century American short stories and novels. I argue that these transatlantic love stories respond to shifting Anglo-American cultural, …
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Recognizing the Twentieth-Century Love Story
<p><em>Recognizing the Twentieth-Century Love Story </em>investigates an alternative framework through which we can understand the form and function of love stories in the twentieth century. While the love story has previously been understood in terms of a requirement that the lover renunciate …
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Emancipating Madame Butterfly: Intention and process in adapting and queering a text
I have long had an interest in reworking iconic love stories from the romantic world of opera into contemporary, gay contexts, with the intention of demonstrating the similarities as well as the differences between homosexual and heterosexual relationships. I have not been satisfied with my …
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The Art of Sungazing
… Hiding her actions from her friends and loved ones alike, Amy falls deeper and deeper in love with someone she does not really know. In a self-destructive spiral, she finds herself more and more caught up in a web of deception and increasing stress as she sees the pain she is putting both …
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Marivaux's <i>La Voiture embourbée</i>: a translation with critical introduction
… romanesque. It takes the most conventional of love stories, interpolates a line of incomprehensibly sub-divided sub-plots, and repeated melodramatic adventures, and takes the material to its stock conclusion, mixing up a few characters and plots along the way.</p> <p>In his next work, …
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Elizabeth Madox Roberts : Ritual, Selfhood and Sisterhood
… three more novels, two collections of short stories and a collection of poetry, all widely reviewed. Unfortunately, today much of her work is out of print and none of it taught in our universities. Such neglect of a major literary figure, noted by critics as eminent as Robert Penn Warren, …