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Download or read book Romantic Agency written by Luke Brunning and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book for people energized by the possibilities of modern intimacy, but who feel unsure about their own romantic lives. Alternative lifestyles such as nonmonogamy, while liberating in theory, can feel remote in practice, as we are fixed in place by insecurities and social pressures. In Romantic Agency, philosopher Luke Brunning encourages readers to think more deeply about what it means for relationships to not only work, but flourish. Guided by the thought that our abilities to be intimate cannot be taken for granted, he argues that our romantic agency is fragile and best cultivated alongside other people. Together we can become more realistic, balance playfulness with integrity, and value each other’s flourishing. Anyone can benefit from this exploration of intimate life, regardless of their relationship status or romantic ideals. Compelling and timely, Romantic Agency is a groundbreaking account of love and relationships.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Romantic Love by : Begonya Enguix
Download or read book Rethinking Romantic Love written by Begonya Enguix and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the result of a thorough exploration of contemporary conceptions of romantic love from different points of view. Beginning with an initial text where the meanings of romantic love are discussed theoretically and historically, the contributions gathered here present current discussions about love in the present day and in different geographical contexts that range from Hungary to Italy or Spain. The first part of the book is devoted to the analysis of mobilities for the sake of love as a result of globalization. These mobilities are analysed in relation to love ideals, to gender equality and to online searches for the ideal partners. The second part of the book deals with the exploration of different imaginaries of love in particular geographical contexts. The topics dealt with here include love as sickness, love and violence, love ideals for men engaged in gender equality and love ideals for those who engage in cross-dressing practices. In the third part, writing about and for love is addressed. Love writings to the beloved dead, teenage girls’ blogs and bestsellers such as Fifty Shades of Grey are discussed in particular detail. This book addresses current conceptions of romantic love in different social groups through different practices and in different countries, and shows that, despite the variability of discourses, experiences and practices related to love, a number of ideas of what love should be like – related to the Western ideals of romantic love – persist in all these contexts. The contributions to this volume are derived from extensive fieldwork and ethnographic research, and will be of undoubted interest for the academic milieu. However, given the topic it deals with, the book will also appeal to the general public, who will find in these pages many ‘love stories’ derived from the detailed study of the society which we inhabit and the ideals of love that we breathe.
Book Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of German Romantic Philosophy by : Elizabeth Millán Brusslan
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of German Romantic Philosophy written by Elizabeth Millán Brusslan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the philosophical dimensions of German Romanticism, a movement that challenged traditional borders between philosophy, poetry, and science. With contributions from leading international scholars, the collection places the movement in its historical context by both exploring its links to German Idealism and by examining contemporary, related developments in aesthetics and scientific research. A substantial concluding section of the Handbook examines the enduring legacy of German romantic philosophy. Key Features: • Highlights the contributions of German romantic philosophy to literary criticism, irony, cinema, religion, and biology. • Emphasises the important role that women played in the movement’s formation. • Reveals the ways in which German romantic philosophy impacted developments in modernism, existentialism and critical theory in the twentieth century. • Interdisciplinary in approach with contributions from philosophers, Germanists, historians and literary scholars. Providing both broad perspectives and new insights, this Handbook is essential reading for scholars undertaking new research on German romantic philosophy as well as for advanced students requiring a thorough understanding of the subject.
Book Synopsis The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, 3 Volume Set by : Frederick Burwick
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, 3 Volume Set written by Frederick Burwick and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 1767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature is an authoritative three-volume reference work that covers British artistic, literary, and intellectual movements between 1780 and 1830, within the context of European, transatlantic and colonial historical and cultural interaction. Comprises over 275 entries ranging from 1,000 to 6,500 words arranged in A-Z format across three fully cross-referenced volumes Written by an international cast of leading and emerging scholars Entries explore genre development in prose, poetry, and drama of the Romantic period, key authors and their works, and key themes Also available online as part of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature, providing 24/7 access and powerful searching, browsing and cross-referencing capabilities
Book Synopsis The Lessons of Love: A Small Town, Second Chance Romantic Suspense by : Sophie Bartow
Download or read book The Lessons of Love: A Small Town, Second Chance Romantic Suspense written by Sophie Bartow and published by LLIPSS. This book was released on 2023-09-09 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this small-town romantic suspense from Swan Harbor series with a sense of family, and let the power of love sweep you away. A Small Town A Secret And a Second Chance Head librarian Amanda Kane’s quiet life has been upended. Swan Harbor’s shared a secret. One that no one knows about – or at least they aren’t talking about. Plus, her ex-husband and his father have been pulled into a scandal. One that could threaten her place in the town, her job, and most importantly, her son. On top of that, she has a complex past with the agent who was sent to investigate. Special Agent Lee Simpson is back in Swan Harbor. On the one hand, he’s only in town because of a case. On the other, he thinks he’s been guided there for a reason. One that involves a woman he’s not been able to forget, but one who danger surrounds. When the lines between the two begin to blur, he faces a question. Does he bend the rules and listen to his heart? The sparks between Lee and Amanda reignite, fanning the flame of love between them. Then … someone dies, and danger begins to grow. With more than one suspect having connections between their families, it’s difficult to know who to trust. It’s up to Lee to pull apart the threads and find their man … or woman before it’s too late. In Swan Harbor, things happen when they’re meant to happen — that includes love … and death. Is there a happy ending for Lee and Amanda? Will they listen to their hearts, even if it means bending the rules? Or will they turn their backs on love — and each other — yet again? The Lessons of Love is Book 13 in the Hope & Hearts from Swan Harbor Series. For fans of Brooke Montgomery, Ashley A Quinn, or Erin Nicholas, this is a second-chance mystery romance with a guaranteed happy ending. Curl up with a copy of The Lessons of Love and rally behind Lee and Amanda.
Book Synopsis From Popular Culture to Everyday Life by : John Storey
Download or read book From Popular Culture to Everyday Life written by John Storey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Popular Culture to Everyday Life presents a critical exploration of the development of everyday life as an object of study in cultural analysis, wherein John Storey addresses the way in which everyday life is beginning to replace popular culture as a primary concept in cultural studies. Storey presents a range of different ways of thinking theoretically about the everyday; from Freudian and Marxist approaches, to chapters exploring topics such as consumption, mediatization and phenomenological sociology. The book concludes, drawing from the previous nine chapters, with notes towards a definition of what everyday life might look like as a pedagogic object of study in cultural studies. This is an ideal introduction to the theories of everyday life for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of cultural studies, communication studies and media studies.
Download or read book Romantic Moods written by Thomas Pfau and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-10-20 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pfau focuses on three specific paradigms of emotive experience: paranoia, trauma, and melancholy. Along the trajectory of Romantic thought paranoia characterizes the disintegration of traditional models of causation and representation during the French Revolution; trauma, the radical political, cultural, and economic restructuring of Central Europe in the Napoleonic era; and melancholy, the dominant post-traumatic condition of stalled, post-Napoleonic history both in England and on the continent."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Hitchcock's Romantic Irony by : Richard Allen
Download or read book Hitchcock's Romantic Irony written by Richard Allen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Hitchcock a superficial, though brilliant, entertainer or a moralist? Do his films celebrate the ideal of romantic love or subvert it? In a new interpretation of the director's work, Richard Allen argues that Hitchcock orchestrates the narrative and stylistic idioms of popular cinema to at once celebrate and subvert the ideal of romance and to forge a distinctive worldview-the amoral outlook of the romantic ironist or aesthete. He describes in detail how Hitchcock's characteristic tone is achieved through a titillating combination of suspense and black humor that subverts the moral framework of the romantic thriller, and a meticulous approach to visual style that articulates the lure of human perversity even as the ideal of romance is being deliriously affirmed. Discussing more than thirty films from the director's English and American periods, Allen explores the filmmaker's adoption of the idioms of late romanticism, his orchestration of narrative point of view and suspense, and his distinctive visual strategies of aestheticism and expressionism and surrealism.
Book Synopsis Sex, Love, and Friendship by : Adrianne Leigh McEvoy
Download or read book Sex, Love, and Friendship written by Adrianne Leigh McEvoy and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The joke is that all the prostitutes go on vacation when the philosophers come to town. The reason that the other conventioneers do it; philosophers just talk about it. And talk about sex and love, and friendship is what the contributors to this volume do! They talk and argue, split hairs and clarify, all trying to advance our understanding of this most interesting practice of the human species. Some of the best minds on three continents, from four nations, and eighteen of the United States discuss such topics as adultery, commitment, cross dressing, gender politics, date rape, family, friendship, friends as lovers, gayness, love, marital pluralism, marriage, prostitution, religiously motivated anti-queer sentiments, same sex marriage, seduction, and self-respect. Rather than preach, participants probe our attitudes and practices involving these issues with the aim of better understanding the broad range of sexual practices of our species. The result is a collection of stimulating essays that can enliven class discussions as well as provide guidance for the sexually perplexed. The work is accessible to readers from high school through college and beyond.
Book Synopsis Poetic Form and Romantic Provocation by : Carmen Faye Mathes
Download or read book Poetic Form and Romantic Provocation written by Carmen Faye Mathes and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics have long understood the development of Romantic aesthetics as a turning point in the history of literary theory, a turn that is responsible for theories of mind and body that continue to inform our understandings of subjectivity and embodiment today. Yet the question of what aesthetic experience can "do" grates against the fact that much Romantic writing represents subjects as not actually in charge of the feelings they feel, the dreams they dream, or the actions they take. In response to this dilemma, Poetic Form and Romantic Provocation argues that being moved contrary to one's will is itself an aesthetic phenomenon explored by Romantic poets whose experiments with poetic form and genre provoke unanticipated feelings through verse. By analyzing how Romantic poets intervene, affectively and aesthetically, in readerly expectations of form and genre, Mathes shows how provocations disrupt and invite, disturb and compel—interrupting or suspending or retreating in ways that ask readers to orient themselves, materially and socially, in relation to literary experiences that are at once virtual and embodied. Examining the formal tactics of Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, alongside their reactions to historical events such as Toussaint Louverture's revolt and the Peterloo Massacre, Mathes reveals that an aesthetics of radical openness is central to the development of literary theory and criticism in Romantic Britain.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love by : Ann Brooks
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love written by Ann Brooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary reference work essential for students and researchers interested in the field of love, romance and popular romance fiction. This first-of-its-kind volume illustrates the broad and interdisciplinary nature of love studies. International contributors, including leaders in their field, reflect a range of perspectives from cultural studies, history, literature, popular romance studies, American studies, sociology and gender studies. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors the Companion is divided into 12 parts: Love, romance and historical and social change Love and feminist discourses Love and popular romance fiction Love, gender and sexuality Romancing Australia South and Southeast Asian romance communities Nation, place and identity in US popular romance novels Romantic love and national identity in Chinese and Taiwanese discourses of love Muslim and Middle Eastern romances Discourses of romance fiction and technologies of power Writing love and romance Legal and theological fiction and sexual politics This is an important and unique collection aimed at researchers and students across cultural studies, women and gender studies, literature studies and sociology.
Book Synopsis Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology by : Noah Heringman
Download or read book Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology written by Noah Heringman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are rocks and landforms so prominent in British Romantic poetry? Why, for example, does Shelley choose a mountain as the locus of a "voice... to repeal / large codes of fraud and woe"? Why does a cliff, in the boat-stealing episode of Wordsworth's Prelude, chastise the young thief? Why is petrifaction, or "stonifying," in Blake's coinage, the ultimate figure of dehumanization? Noah Heringman maintains that British literary culture was fundamentally shaped by many of the same forces that created geology as a science in the period 1770–1820. He shows that landscape aesthetics—the verbal and social idiom of landscape gardening, natural history, the scenic tour, and other forms of outdoor "improvement"—provided a shared vernacular for geology and Romanticism in their formative stages.Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology reexamines a wide range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry to discover its relationship to a broad cultural consensus on the nature and value of rocks and landforms. Equally interested in the initial surge of curiosity about the earth and the ensuing process of specialization, Heringman contributes to a new understanding of literature as a key forum for the modern reorganization of knowledge.
Book Synopsis The Justice Team Romantic Suspense Series Box Set (Vol. 6-8) by : Adrienne Giordano
Download or read book The Justice Team Romantic Suspense Series Box Set (Vol. 6-8) written by Adrienne Giordano and published by ALG Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set includes Protecting Justice, Missing Justice and Defending Justice. Protecting Justice As the premier political spin-doctor in the U.S., Fallyn Pasche can fix any problem--except her own. Her twin sister, Heather, a United States Senator, has been murdered, her father is barely speaking to her, and someone is after coded files Heather hid in a private safe. In order to decode the files and figure out what happened to her twin, Fallyn turns to the Justice Team. What she doesn’t expect is the sexy bodyguard who shows up needing a little personal fixing of his own. Tony Gerard sees failure every time he looks in the mirror. The former Supreme Court police officer lives with the knowledge that the Chief Justice—a man who was like a father to him—died on his watch. Now he’s sure he can’t protect anyone. When his first assignment for the Justice Team lands him in the media spotlight, working side-by-side with the country’s foremost political fixer, Tony wants to run the other way. But Fallyn’s devil-may-care attitude and tantalizing beauty bring out all of his protective instincts. As Fallyn and Tony peel back the layers of a government scandal that threatens to bring down the most powerful man in the world, sparks fly along with the intoxicating danger. Desire and passion escalate with their perilous search for the truth as they find relief in each other’s arms from their respective demons. When an unexpected enemy puts Fallyn's life on the line, Tony is forced to face his own failures in order to help her conquer hers. But will he once again fail to protect someone he loves? Missing Justice A one-night stand and a missing child put these two on opposite sides of solving a murder. A rising star at the FBI, Taylor Sinclair has a perfect close rate on cold cases. When the bones of a senator’s murdered wife turn up eight years after her kidnapping, the case lands on Taylor’s desk, putting her in the crosshairs of the media—and the killer. Success will solidify her career at the Bureau, but a provocative one-night stand with cocky PI Matt “Mad Dog” Stephens could ruin it. Matt’s on the hunt for the killer as well, along with the senator’s still-missing child, and believes joining forces with Taylor will get them both the answers they need. He’s determined to get the sexy agent to work with him—in and out of the bedroom—but Taylor is convinced the senator is a murderer. Matt is just as certain he’s innocent. With a child’s life on the line, Matt and Taylor must plunge into the world of undercover ops as they battle a dangerous attraction that could prove fatal to them both. Defending Justice Former prosecutor and now hot-shot defense attorney, Jackie DelRay, is a star in the shark-infested judicial waters of Washington, DC. Behind her take-no-prisoners façade, she hides a painful secret and a longing for FBI Special Agent Beckett Pearson-the man who captured her heart during a passion-filled weekend in college. The same man who still holds a grudge over a case Jackie refused to prosecute years before. When Beck is arrested for the shocking murder of the FBI director's estranged wife, Jackie breaks every rule she's known about being emotionally involved with her client. Knowing the risks to her heart and her career, she rushes to defend him. A former model and football star, Beck has finally found his home with the Bureau. He wants nothing to do with the sexy lawyer who left him without a goodbye twelve years ago and then destroyed his first, and most important, missing persons investigation. Now, with his freedom on the line, Jackie's brilliant legal mind may be his one hope at staying out of prison. When their investigation is mired by political alliances and reckless greed, Beck and Jackie battle corruption at the highest levels. That battle includes resisting the long-buried passion they'd shared twelve years earlier. But will a killer bent on stopping their investigation give them a fight they are bound to lose?
Book Synopsis A Playing Dirty Romantic Comedy Duet by : Pamela DuMond
Download or read book A Playing Dirty Romantic Comedy Duet written by Pamela DuMond and published by Pamela DuMond. This book was released on with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PLAYING DIRTY DUET featurES two steamy, STAND ALONE, Holiday Romantic Comedies. THE CLIENT I was an underpaid assistant working at a matchmaking agency, surviving on Insta-Ramen and dreams. How was it possible that I made a love match that resulted in the society marriage of the year? Christmas season was upon us and I planned on enjoying this gorgeous wedding. I didn’t plan on running into the smoking hot, tuxedo-clad brick wall of a man. I didn’t plan on him stopping my fall by grabbing onto my boob and Not. Letting. Go. I most definitely didn’t plan on this gorgeous man being my new CLIENT. Joe was heir to the Delacroix Hotel fortune, whip smart, hilariously funny, and so yummy. I was tempted to… good God I wanted to... but sleeping with clients was a big, fat ‘No-No.’ Weren’t some rules meant to be broken? ** THE MATCHMAKER Aiden Black thought he’d left his past behind when he abandoned the priesthood. He channeled his desire to help others by creating WGA -- Chicago’s premiere matchmaking agency. Aiden’s the expert at finding true love for his clients but he’s put his own needs on hold for a Very. Long. Time. Violet Accardi doesn’t want to settle down and be a Mafia princess – she’s busy building her own sportswear company. Problem is Uncle Vincent promised Violet’s hand in marriage to the son of a rival family. When his goon attempts to kidnap her at the WGA Christmas party, Aiden shuts him down by pretending to be Violet’s fiancé. He’s smoking hot, such a gentleman, and Violet wonders what could it hurt to pretend to be in love for just one night? But Uncle Vincent calls their bluff, popping them both on a private jet headed to the Accardi home in Sicily for the holidays. Life for Violet and Aiden is about to become more complicated... Praise "Funny, witty, and hot, hot, HOT!..." ~ Ann Charles, USA Today Bestselling Author. "A captivating love story; simply have no words to describe how beautiful it is." Sofia Beddable Reads "2 Thumbs up for a great heart warming story..." ~ Barbara - A. Reviewer "Lots of feels, terrific secondary characters, drama, comedy, angst, this book has it all!" ~ Melissa P. "The perfect balance of funny (like laugh out loud funny), witty, and sexy (sosohot)." ~ Sweet Red Reader "... a sexy, funny, emotional heartwarming romance." April Symes "Everyone needs to discover Aiden Black..." Amy Stephens 1 click the Playing Dirty Duet!
Book Synopsis Women, Nationalism, and the Romantic Stage by : Betsy Bolton
Download or read book Women, Nationalism, and the Romantic Stage written by Betsy Bolton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-19 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2001 book examines how Romantic women performers and playwrights used theatrical conventions to intervene in politics.
Book Synopsis Harlequin Romantic Suspense September 2017 Box Set by : Carla Cassidy
Download or read book Harlequin Romantic Suspense September 2017 Box Set written by Carla Cassidy and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for heart-racing romance and breathless suspense? Want stories filled with life-and-death situations that cause sparks to fly between adventurous, strong women and brave, powerful men? Harlequin® Romantic Suspense brings you all that and more with four new full-length titles in one collection! SHELTERED BY THE COWBOY Cowboys of Holiday Ranch by Carla Cassidy When the town bad girl, Mandy Wright, and cowboy Brody Booth get stranded in a snowstorm, they develop a friendship that blossoms into love. But a killer wants Mandy dead, so Brody is thrust into the role of protector, bringing his deepest fears about himself to a head. SINGLE MOM’S BODYGUARD Bachelor Bodyguards by Lisa Childs In fear of losing both her sanity and her baby, Emilia Ecklund asks Dane Sutton for protection. To avoid attention, he moves in under the guise of being her boyfriend. Soon they’ll be risking their hearts and lives to uncover the truth about the threats. RUNAWAY HEIRESS Cold Case Detectives by Jennifer Morey When billionaire heiress Sadie Moreno witnesses a murder and goes into hiding, detective Jasper Roesch must do his best to not only solve a murder, but protect her from a dangerous criminal—without being distracted by the passion simmering between them. CAPTIVATING WITNESS Undercover Justice by Melinda Di Lorenzo Detective Brayden Maxwell has waited a long time to see his father’s murderer brought to justice. Will waitress Reggie Frost, an unsuspecting witness, help him, or will his feelings for her get in the way? Join HarlequinMyRewards.com to earn FREE books and more. Earn points for all your Harlequin purchases from wherever you shop.
Book Synopsis Romantic Love and Personal Beauty by : Henry T. Finck
Download or read book Romantic Love and Personal Beauty written by Henry T. Finck and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Romantic Love and Personal Beauty" (Their development, causal relations, historic and national peculiarities) by Henry T. Finck. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
