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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"romantic love"”.
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The phenomenal meaning of romantic Love
The phenomenal meaning of romantic love is sought, using the descriptions of co-researchers. A brief discussion of the theoretical underpinnings of phenomenology is provided, and the methods of phenomenological psychology are outlined. The specific methods for arriving at the phenomenal meaning of …
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Chivalry and Romantic Love in the Courts of Eleanor of Aquitane
… to France and England, and merged chivalry and romantic love. The poetry was influenced by a renewed enthusiasm for worship of the Virgin Mary and by the lyric quality of Hispano-Arabic poetry. Based on romance, it differed from epic poetry which was centered on adventures and deeds.</p> …
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The Romantic Love Quest: A Structural Analysis of Variations on A Theme
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Motivation for parenthood, need satisfaction, and romantic love: a comparison between pregnant and nonpregnant teenagers
… were made of motivations for parenthood, romantic love attitudes and perception of need satisfaction. Analysis of Variance, one-way classification, was used to test the significance of the differences between the means of the two groups for each of the three variables. Pearson product …
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Reconceiving Romantic Agency: A Question Concerning Its Extent
… investigates and questions the extent to which romantic love is a matter of agency. Toward this end, I draw a distinction between two contrasting conceptions of romantic love—the “agent-external” conception and the “agent-centered” conception. In this paper I make the assumption that the …
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Reconceiving Romantic Agency: A Question Concerning Its Extent
… investigates and questions the extent to which romantic love is a matter of agency. Toward this end, I draw a distinction between two contrasting conceptions of romantic love—the “agent-external” conception and the “agent-centered” conception. In this paper I make the assumption that the …
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Beyond romance’s utopia: The individual and human love
This thesis is a critique of romantic love theoretically premised on the analytical psychology of Carl Jung and the humanistic psychoanalysis of Erich Fromm. The aim of this critique is to explore whether there are grounds for postulating a conception of love beyond the current romantic framework. …
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Bird pretender
… about the speaking subject, speech position, romantic love, the poem as an act of willful speech, the untenable spaces between poet and poem and lover and beloved, the hope that romantic love may be a disavowal of male authority, and the fear that it may not.
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"This strange operation of love" : a unified reading of Sidney's Arcadia.
… text represents Sidney's treatise on virtuous, romantic love. In Chapter One I begin to construct the pattern I find in Sidney's Books One, Two, and Three. This pattern creates an ambiguity about love which forces the reader to question the possibility of a virtuous, romantic love in the light …
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Professions of love : the discursive construction of love and romance in intimate heterosexual relationships
… was to deconstruct the notion of heterosexual love in order to question if and how current stories of love are involved in producing gender inequality. Using discourse analysis, informed by feminist theory, I analysed, in detail, qualitative interviews with eleven women and eleven men about …
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Unstill Life: Poems
… comments on region, landscape, family, and romantic love, focusing much of its attention on the small upstate New York town, Nunda. Many of the poems also comment on queer identity, specifically that of a gay male speaker coming of age in New York and then later looking for love and …
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Crossing the Chasm: a Qualitative Analysis of Cross-Sex Friendship
… genres such as same-sex friendship and romantic love, cross-sex friendship has not been given sufficient exploration. A constant comparative method was utilized in order to categorize data retrieved through an interview process into emerging themes that answered the research questions …
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Close, A Family Memoir
… traces my fixation, as a young, single woman, on romantic love: I write a blog about relationships, and have long been consumed by a search for connection shaped by the isolation I've felt within my family. The arc of the second narrative ties into the first as the narrator, after years of feeling …
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Waiting Too Long to Exhale: Dysfunctional Love in African-American Film
… this thesis aims to explore representations of romantic relationships in African-American film. My argument is that love, as expressed in African-American film, is portrayed as dysfunctional and problematic. The artifact serving as evidence of my argument and the source of my analysis is Waiting …
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Change of Condition: Women's Rhetorical Strategies on Marriage, 1710-1756
… that friendship is more honest, and durable than romantic love. This definition of ideal marriage enables these women to argue for more egalitarian marital relationships without overtly calling for a change in the wife's traditional role. The advancement of this ideal of companionacy gave women a …
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Post Everything
… writer, as mother of a young child, as wife, as lover, writer, psyche, self-reflexive animal. The voice is private, heightened, direct, and colloquial, engaging in unexpected imagery, figurative language, and grammatical-play, and drawing from all levels of language and culture. The poems often …
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Letting gendered spaces go: striving toward gender and nature balance through bonding in Disney's Frozen and Maleficent
… I will demonstrate how the depiction of sisterly love in Frozen and the portrayal of motherhood in Maleficent as more important than romantic love establishes a deviation from Disney's prior portrayal of female characters while parodying “traditional” gender depictions. Although both films still …
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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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Overparenting and Emerging Adults' Romantic Relationship Efficacy: The Moderating Role of Individual Cultural Beliefs
Romantic love and intimacy are critical for emerging adults to explore self-identity. Relationship efficacy is a cognitive process related to conflict management that plays an important role in romantic relationship development and quality. Overparenting, characterized by high control and …
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The Plight of Rudy "Gordo" Sanchez and Other Short Stories
… and painful. The characters are gay men in love, a reality television show judge, a bench, feminine little boys, a sadistic group therapy leader, a man dying of AIDS, Frida Kahlo, a piñata maker, a female prostitute with supernatural powers, and an overweight taco truck chef with a special …
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