Abstract
Romantic love stories, rather than being troubled by obstacles, seem instead to be intensified by them Mtny feminists have taken up positions against romantic love and discourse analysts expect that common obstacles will constrain experience, so those who espouse feminismandJor discourse analysis may be interested in engaging with the peculiar and perverse power of obstacles to love. Where many traditional obstacles, such as parental opposition, no longer have relevance in contemporary love stories, they seem to have been replaced by others such as ‘male emotional intimacy’. The obstacle of an already existent partner of one of the lovers, has persisted. This paper attempts to theorize how modern obstacles are discoursed and to question their power to enhance romance. I will suggest that we need to resist reproducing sone obstacles in order that the discourse of romantic love may be transformed into a more emancipatory discourse.
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