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Justice-based schadenfreude comes from seeing that behavior seen as immoral or "bad" is punished. It is the pleasure associated with seeing a "bad" person being harmed or receiving retribution. Schadenfreude is experienced here because it makes people feel that fairness has been restored for a previously un-punished wrong, and is a type of ...
In “Heart of a Broken Story” Salinger takes the measure of wishful fantasy as the basis for popular entertainment and —at a remarkably early point in his career —registers his uneasiness with formula fiction. This story constitutes his earliest attack on phony art.” —John Wenke in J. D. Salinger: A Study of the Short Fiction (1991) [9]
Unrequited love has long been depicted as noble, an unselfish and stoic willingness to accept suffering. Literary and artistic depictions of unrequited love may depend on assumptions of social distance that have less relevance in western, democratic societies with relatively high social mobility and less rigid codes of sexual fidelity.
The Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů based a short opera on this story; however, he used the title of another story by Tolstoi, "What Men Live By". Libretto of this opera-pastoral in one act (1952) was written by the composer. The story was made into a 1977 claymation special animated by Will Vinton. Vinton's recreation was a faithful ...
See photos to this story The 300-letter collection detailed the love between soldier Gilbert Bradley and his lover -- who signed the letters with the initial "G". Decades later it was discovered ...
The collection features eight intricate stories exploring themes of love, marriage, aging, and human relationships, including the titular story about an unlikely romance sparked by a teenage prank, and "The Bear Came Over the Mountain," a poignant examination of love and memory in the face of illness.
No guilt, just pleasure in spicy romance books. As one of romance’s hottest authors (both in steamy scenes and popularity), Huang says she gets frustrated when she hears how romance is cast ...
The tell is in how Swift reflects on a brief romance (“For a moment I knew cosmic love”), while her love story with Alwyn was much longer (like, six years longer!