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Understanding love : philosophy, film, and fiction /

This collection of original essays, written by scholars from disciplines across the humanities, addresses a wide range of questions about love through a focus on individual films, novels, plays, and works of philosophy. Many varieties of love are discussed, among them, friendship, romantic love, par...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wolf, Susan R. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1. Grizzly Man, Sentimentality, and Our Relationships With Other Animals
  • 2. False Racial Symmetries in Far From Heaven and Elsewhere
  • 3. The Untold Want of Now, Voyager
  • 4. Communicating Love: Ian McEwan, Saturday, and Personal Affection in the Information Age
  • 5. Love, Loss, and Identity in Solaris
  • 6. Embarrassing Fathers
  • 7. Projected Love
  • 8. Between Desire and Destruction: A Reading of The Go-Between
  • ""9. “Something That Might Resemble a Kind of Loveâ€?: Fantasy and Realism in Henrik Ibsenâ€?s Little Eyolf""""10. Rousseauâ€?s Julie: Passion, Love, and the Price of Virtue""; ""11. Shermanâ€?s March: Romantic Love in Documentary Films""; ""12. Hitchcockâ€?s Family Romance: Allegory in Shadow of a Doubt""; ""13. Lessons in Looking: Krzysztof Kieslowskiâ€?s A Short Film About Love""; ""14. Talking Back to Hollywood: Ordinary Love Stories on Film, 1946â€?1964""; ""15. Dipping Into Omniscience With Willa Cather: Authorial Knowledge as Love""
  • ""16. Love and Bullshit in Santa Rosa: Pastiche in The Man Who Wasnâ€?t There""""17. Loving Attention: Lessons in Love From The Philadelphia Story""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""