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The People's Act of Love, about a woman and her three lovers in a small Siberian town during the Russian Civil War, [16] was followed by We Are Now Beginning Our Descent (2008), the story of a journalist who travels to Afghanistan immediately after 9/11, [17] and The Heart Broke In (2012), set in contemporary Britain, where a newspaper editor ...
The sonnet in spirit resembles a passionate dramatic monologue, and seems to be expressed by a man who looks back at such an act of love with bitter fury at its contrasting aspects. The sonnet begins with a howl of disgust, as the poet condemns the experience, listing negative aspects of lust in anticipation: It can cause a man to be dishonest ...
The last chapter is entitled "The Death of Leopold Gursky" and is identical with the last chapter of the book inside a book The History of Love, both being the self-written obituary of Leopold Gursky. By ending the novel this way, Krauss is richly alluding to earlier parts of the novel and to her theme of how words keep people alive for us ...
Works of Love deals primarily with the Christian conception of agape love, in contrast with erotic love or preferential love given to friends and family. Kierkegaard uses this value/virtue to understand the existence and relationship of the individual Christian.
[1] hooks ends the preface of the book with an explanation of why she chooses to write about love. She writes, "I write of love to bear witness both to the danger in this movement, and to call for a return to love. Redeemed and restored, love returns us to the promise of everlasting life. When we love we can let our hearts speak." [1]
Act of Love (politics) a political statement by Jeb Bush that became an important part of the 2016 Republican Presidential Primary campaign; Act of Love, a 1953 American romantic drama film; Act of Love, a 1980 American made-for-TV film; Act of Love, 1981 novel by Joe R. Lansdale "Act of Love", a song by Neil Young and Pearl Jam from Mirrorball ...
The Four Loves is a 1960 book by C. S. Lewis which explores the nature of love from a Christian and philosophical perspective through thought experiments. [1] The book was based on a set of radio talks from 1958 which had been criticised in the U.S. at the time for their frankness about sex.
The dramatistic pentad forms the core structure of dramatism, a method for examining motivations that the renowned literary critic Kenneth Burke developed. Dramatism recommends the use of a metalinguistic approach to stories about human action that investigates the roles and uses of five rhetorical elements common to all narratives, each of which is related to a question.