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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"love letters"”.
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Love letters to services past: risk and outdoor education in youth work
Outdoor educators often argue that growing public aversion to, and avoidance of, risk, ironically puts young people further in harm’s way, as they lack the experience of successfully managing risk for themselves. Young people also face more significant, ‘real’ risks from the consequential inactive …
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"Homesick for You:" An Archival Analysis of Love Letters from World War II
… studies, I analyze key elements of these letters with special attention for themes of love and family, valuing their insights to touching personal stories that nuance the dominant narratives of history. I contend for the preservation and discussion of these letters and similar artifacts, …
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Reading the Lines: Edo period nyohitsu and the construction of meaning through script form
… 女筆 ‘woman’s brush’, a style of writing used in letters and taught through books taking the same name which were published in the Edo period, with its heyday between 1650 and 1750. Highly cursive and kana-dominant, it drew on Heian and medieval aristocratic writing practices, and its materiality, …
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Equal Ardor: Female Desire, Amatory Fiction, and the Recasting of the Novel, 1680--1760
… amatory fiction encouraged complex responses to love, marriage, and the sexual double standard. Prolific even by the standards of a prolific time, Behn and Haywood explore their theories of desire in the several genres in which they wrote, including comedy, poetry, moral fiction, and domestic …
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Eighteenth-century fiction and the production of shame, 1680-1753
… Chapter 1 argues that Behn’s amatory fiction, Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (1684), The Fair Jilt (1688), and The History of the Nun (1689), resist the culture of shame and guilt surrounding the sexually available, desiring, and dangerous woman, blurring the lines between the …
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Privacy and print: Reading and writing in seventeenth century England
… books, conversion narratives, personal letters, drama, and the novel. Devotional books became the instrument of private spirituality for Catholics, Anglicans, and radical Protestants alike, as religious repression of various sects and their public religious practices cast the …
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La vanguardia y sus retornos: confabulaciones del presente en cuatro escritores latinoamericanos
… create a zone of proximity--constituted by love letters, poems, journals, and portrait pictures--which allows them to experience other kinds of love, other affections. In Jam├ís el fuego nunca, Eltit stages the formation of a militant cell, which literally embodies the confusion of love and …
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Wives, Warriors, and Womanhood: A Study of Women’s War Roles
… to the Home Front by analyzing a collection of letters between a soldier and his fiancé during World War II. Filled with declarations of love and occasional expressions of insecurity, these letters reveal the importance of a strong relationship to one’s morale, indicating that the ultimate …