Love Affair Research Articles

Lady Caroline Lamb and Miss Elizabeth Spence: Limits of Femininity in Early Nineteenth-Century Salon and Album Culture

In November 1825 middle-class salon hostess and travel writer Elizabeth Spence contributed a short poem titled ‘M.S. Lines on Lady Caroline Lamb’ to Anna Birkbeck’s album. Spence’s choice of subject, Lady Caroline Lamb, was, in many ways, unusual. Coming from a very different world to Spence, the aristocratic Lamb was a household name, most well known for her much publicized personal life, which included a disastrous love affair with Lord George Gordon Byron. Through a close reading of Spence’s poem, this article interrogates the ‘friendship’ between these two women of differing classes and backgrounds and considers the complex gender and social dynamics at play informing Spence’s ambiguous poem. The album, like the salon, existed within the space between the masculine/public and the feminine/private worlds. It is in this space that it is possible to explore the limits of femininity in the early nineteenth century, as its semi-public position enables a view of the fringes of what society deemed acceptable, and what provoked dissent for overstepping. As one famed for her overstepping, Lamb demonstrated the risks and the penalty for pushing these boundaries, but Spence’s poem offers a more complex, and even contradictory, picture of Lamb and by extension the limitations which condemned her.

Talking about the Artistic Features of the Dance Drama "If Life Could Just Be Like First Meeting"

The dance drama "Life Is Just Like the First Meeting" takes the love affair between Nalan Xingde and Lu Shi and the friendship with Gu Zhenguan, Cao Yin and Kangxi as the main content, and runs through the whole text. The traditional elements of the Han and Mongolian peoples are integrated and displayed on the stage using unique and novel stage art techniques. This paper mainly analyzes and discusses the artistic features embodied in "If Life Could Just Be Like First Meeting" from three aspects: the dance image, the narrative art and the comprehensive use of the stage.

Corpi sofferenti d’amore. L’Ingénu di Voltaire tra intêret e sensibilité

In his conte philosophique L’Ingénu (1767), Voltaire engages in his philosophical battle through an original analysis of the love affair between the naïve protagonist Huron and Mademoiselle de Saint-Yves, a young Breton girl with a strict Catholic upbringing. The conflict between their desire to marry and the religious and political institutions is represented here by means of stylistic grafts belonging to the tradition of the genre of the sentimental novel, which in the middle of the 18th century was on the rise in France and the rest of Europe. Making the most recent discoveries in the medical-psychological field his own, Voltaire thus aims to establish the empathic bond on which the moral background of sentimental rhetoric was based through the representation of the psychological and physical suffering of the young protagonists. Distancing himself from the traditional concept of moral ‘virtue’ that was at the basis of the English sentimental novel, Voltaire thus instituted a reflection on amorous sentiment, now conceived not only as the main expression of the passion of individuals, but as a critical device to try to elaborate in an alternative way that reunion between private and public virtues that was at the basis of the Enlightenment mission.

Affective temperament, attachment style and life events related to abandonment in an Italian sample with somatic symptoms

ObjectiveThis study investigates the psychological factors influencing somatic symptoms following the end of a romantic relationship. We hypothesize that affective temperaments may predict attachment styles and depressive rumination components in individuals who have experienced abandonment. Furthermore, we postulate that gender differences exist in the variables under investigation. MethodsThe administered tests included: Temperament Evaluation of Memphis, Pisa, Paris and San Diego Questionnaire (TEMPS-A), Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ) and Ruminative Response Scale (RRS). The differences between the groups were assessed using Student's t-test for independent samples. In addition, regression analysis, in which the RRS (Brooding, Reflection and Depression) and ASQ (Confidence, Discomfort with Closeness, Need for Approval, Preoccupation with Relationships, and Relationships as Secondary) variables were considered dependent variables and all the TEMPS-A factors were included in the equation. ResultsSubjects at the end of a love affair presented the following psychosomatic symptoms: difficulty breathing, chest pain, feeling faint, sweating, dizziness, fatigue, palpitations, air hunger, difficulty sleeping, and swollen legs and ankles. The Anxious and Hyperthymic temperaments were negative predictors of the ruminative depressive dimension, and of “Confidence” and “Discomfort with Closeness” in the ASQ. The Cyclothymic and Anxious temperaments were predictors of “Discomfort with Closeness”, “Need for Approval”, “Preoccupation with Relationships”, and “Relationships as Secondary”. ConclusionAffective temperaments play a crucial role in determining how an individual deals abandonment in a romantic relationship, significantly influencing attachment styles and the tendency towards depressive rumination.

NICK DUNNE’S DISLOYALTY IN GILLIAN FLYNN'S GONE GIRL

This study discusses about Nick Dunne’s disloyalty in Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl. In analysing the data from Dunne’s character, this study applies descriptive qualitative method and psychological theory which is aimed to explain the portrayal, causes, and effects of Nick Dunne’s disloyalty. There are three categories of the findings as the result of this study, the type of Dunne’s disloyalty, the causes of Dunne’s disloyalty and the effects of Dunne’s disloyalty. The type of Dunne’s disloyalty is romantic love affair. The causes of Dunne’s disloyalty are desire of novelty, poor communication, insecurity, and lack of intimacy. There are two kinds of effects from Dunne’s disloyalty, namely effect on the doer and effect on the victim. The effects of Dunne’s disloyalty on the doer, Dunne himself, include suffering from guilt and shame, inner conflict, identity crisis, self-doubt, fear of repercussion, desire of personal growth and change, and lack of intimacy with his wife. The effects of Dunne’s disloyalty on the victim, Amy, include anguish from betrayal and emotional trauma, loss of self-esteem, trust issues, emotional roller coaster, self-blame, fear of repeating betrayal, and lack of intimacy.

Love Affair at Workplace: How Motif and Type Linked to Employee Work Behaviour in Male Employee Experience

Men tends to act more positively than female when it comes to romance in the workplace (Pierce et al., 1996; Powell, 1986). This research presents an exploratory assessment of workplace affairs using a qualitative approach to identify how motives and types of workplace affairs, linked on how it affect employee work behavior from a male employee experience. Social exchange theory and power dynamics approached are used to explain this phenomenon. Respondents were collected using purposive and snowball sampling methods due to the sensitive nature of the respondent criteria. The semi-structured, one-on-one in-depth interview was done to nine male employees who had and/or are engaging in workplace affair. Finding reveals motives and types of workplace affair linked to each other especially ego/fling motive with hierarchical type of relationship. Workplace affair does affect work behavior in vary ways. Additionally, male employee experienced negative effect despite them being superior or subordinate. A negative effect mentioned such as favoritism, power abused even workplace bullying. This study emphasizes more of workplace affair as the dark side of workplace romance thus enriched the findings of previous study regarding workplace affair in Indonesia especially from male employee experience.

MAN AND WOMAN - A CREATION FOR RELATION IN AUSTEN’S NOVELS

Jane Austen as a realist writer put genuine efforts to connect her characters with real life situations and circumstances to establish her as recognised socially realistic author. The selected novels of this chapter - Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, & Mansfield Park – are clear representation of real social lives of early 19th century. However, the representations are so knitted that it provides a bliss of reading romantic comedies. The romance, the love affairs, the restrictions for expressing love, expressions of male chauvinism or chivalry, good fortune, decent suitors, maintenance of dignity by the lady, are some of the keys induced by Jane Austen in all her narrations. The purpose remains static and it is make to feel the personal, emotional and social lives of the characters. It is like living the age with the characters and having bonds with their emotional experiences. This is a narrative technique of Jane Austen that makes her novels not only romantically successful, but also identified as socially real entities.

Spaces of Self and Madness: Autobiography, Autofiction, and Animation in Signe Baumane's "Rocks in My Pockets" and "My Love Affair with Marriage"

This article analyses the two feature-length films by Signe Baumane, Rocks in My Pockets (2014) and My Love Affair with Marriage (2022). For this purpose, this article discusses theories of autofiction and its representation in different forms and media and pays particular attention to the potential of animation to represent fictionalized selves. Drawing on genre and gender theories, as well as the study of memory and self, this article shows how Baumane dissects the constructedness of female and feminine selves and criticizes the oppressive nature of the individual and collective discourses around mental health and womanhood.

Realization of the frame «love affair» in the language system and public communication (based on dictionaries and podcasts)

Realization of the frame «love affair» in the language system and public communication (based on dictionaries and podcasts)

Meliur und Irekel

Abstract Konrad von Würzburg’s Partonopier and Meliur narrates the ‘minne’ between the French count Partonopier and the Byzantine empress Meliur. Irekel, Meliur’s sister, also has a crucial part in this love affair. While Konrad in his Tronjanerkrieg uses such potential love triangles, described by René Girard with his concept of ‘triangular desire’, to question the semantics of courtly love, Konrad pursues the opposite strategy in his Partonopier. This article argues that Konrad von Würzburg, by withdrawing any attempts of triangular desire shown in his French source, amplifies the complementarity of the two sisters and thus binds Irekel and Meliur even more closely together. This has the effect that Irekel ultimately cannot only contribute to the constitution of courtly ‘minne’ between Partonopier and Meliur, but also to the legitimisation of the couple’s claim to reign.

Fanny Brawne and Criticism

This paper considers the letters and the character of Frances ‘Fanny’ Brawne together as a model for criticism at the present time, as well as a meaningful indication of how criticism was practiced by laypeople in the Romantic period. Focusing on Keats’s great love affair rather than on Keats himself, or on Keats to the exclusion of his interlocuters, I describe the erotic conflict between Brawne and the poet as a form of agonistic engagement between writer and critic–the one tragic in impulse, the other more comic. Toward the end of the essay, I ask how conflict of this kind may be understood, in Stanley Cavell’s terms, not as the ugly underside of love but as one of its most significant expressions, a way of keeping up (in Cavell’s words) ‘the conversation love demands’. Throughout, the essay queries the relation between criticism and love, and how that relation might contest contemporary thinking around affect and pleasure.

Expressive oppositions in the strange love affairs from Phanariot Bucharest, by Doina Rusti

In this article, the expressive oppositions from the collection of stories The strange love affairs from Phanariot Bucharest by Doina Rusti are analyzed. The expressive phenomena in speech or in a literary work are characterized by diversity. In common speech and fiction, there is a core of communication (what is communicated) and an expressive area (how to communicate). Frequently, the facts of style are generated by the contrast between the elements of the core and those of the expressive area. The stylistic highlighting of some text sequences takes place through various expressive oppositions, within a context. In the analysis of a text under this aspect, stylistic processes will be considered as bipolar structures formed by context (predictable element) and contrast (unpredictable element), as well as stylistic marks (implicit and explicit). The most common way is to insert a word in the text that is different from the code used by the writer (borrowing, archaism, neologism, regionalism).

투르게네프의 '연기'에 나타난 슬라브·서구주의 논쟁과 철도 이미지 고찰

Turgenev’s The Smoke is a portrait of Russian intellectuals living in the chaotic 1860s, shortly after the Emancipation reform of 1981. Turgenev’s stylistic style is characterized by a strong sense of the times and an extraordinary sense of reality. This work also features strong female characters such as Irina and Tatyana, and the love affairs of Litvinov who is hesitant and torn between them. This paper analyzes this debate between Slavophilia, and Westernizer in Turgenev’s The Smoke and the issue of the protagonists’ love affairs. In particular, in Smoke, the railroad appears as a medium connecting Russia and the West, a product of natural science and a means of transportation that connects the protagonists’ encounters. The railroad is more than just a means of transportation, as it directly reveals the artist’s worldview through the protagonist Litvinov. Through writer’s narrative and his protagonist Litvinov, Turgenev presents an objective view of the Slavicist and the uncompromising Westerner, both of whom are unable to completely deny their past and their existence, and both of whom are searching for a way forward for Russia. A new European artefact, a symbol of the natural sciences and the power of civilization, railroads and trains are transformed into a space for Litvinov’s growth and reflection. Turgenev also substitutes the image of a runaway train for Irina, who is oriented toward upward mobility and the West. He then sets up the figure of Tatyana, the idealized counterpart of Irina, to antithesis, and suggests the direction in which Russian intellectuals and Russia should move toward historical progress, social reform, and social justice.

Introduction

The six research articles in this issue range from an exploration of early German radio research labs and drama, to perception of politicians in audio vs. video, Indigenous participatory podcasting in Canada, Turkey’s music streaming app continuing cultural policies, and Japan’s first hospital radio initiative. Also included are book reviews of key texts, on the radio love affair described in Radiophilia and student/campus radio cultures. The editors’ introduction concludes by welcoming the new international editorial board members joining from twelve countries across five continents.

Policing, surveillance capitalism and the Great British love affair with crime drama in Happy Valley

Police and crime dramas are one of the most popular forms of TV entertainment in Britain. I first show that over the course of the past few decades, policing and surveillance has become more invasive than ever before. These phenomena are strongly tied to new forms of neo-liberalism and capitalism that encourage increasingly individualistic and fragmented societies. Yet, data shows that trust in the police is high, regardless of class background: Why might this be? I turn to depictions of surveillance and policing in British crime drama, in particular, the recently highly acclaimed Happy Valley. Whilst a well-written, heart-warming and satisfying TV series, I point to several themes that illustrate how British neo-liberal societal decay, policing and surveillance culture might be apparent. Police are presented as capable of filling the void left by the neo-liberal decimation of public services and the accompanying loneliness of intense individualism in poorer towns and cities.

Is Donald Trump a Modern-Day Catiline?

Could the story of a failed Roman politician who organized a plot to seize the Roman republic in 63 BCE be a metaphor for Donald Trump’s political persona—his initial presidential run against the establishment, his rhetorical effort to overthrow the status quo and the natural order of things in national politics, the love affair Trump has always had with the struggling working-class voters (with the “forgotten” Americans), his constant testing the constitutional limits of our republican system of government? Could both figures be symptoms of times when a republic is in crisis and reminders of the perils that political divisiveness and civil disunion bring to a democracy?

Books: Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers: A love affair with books.

Books: Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers: A love affair with books.

Monstrous Mushrooms, Toxic Love and Queer Utopias in Jenny Hval's Paradise Rot

Embarking on a close reading of Jenny Hval's 2018 novel, Paradise Rot, this paper sets out to unveil the utopic potential rooted in reimagining the body not as a self-contained being but as an intricate network extending beyond the confines of the skin. It challenges prevailing Western epistemologies that isolate humans, hierarchically distancing them from non-humans such as plants and animals. By taking up the literary conventions of gothic horror, the analysis focuses on the peculiar, co-dependent relationship of Paradise Rot's central characters: Carral and Johanna. As the women’s unsettling love affair unfolds, they become a symbiotic and mycorrhizal entity akin to the sprouting mushrooms inhabiting their dilapidated house. Exploring the metaphorical and tangible challenges posed by mushrooms, the paper underscores the interconnected, non-singular nature of fungal networks. Hval provocatively links the queerness of her main characters with fungi, both typically demonized as alien, contaminating, and freakish. This paper furthermore aligns these characteristics with queered figures from classic gothic horror, including the lesbian vampire and Susan Stryker’s transgendered Frankenstein. Together, these monstrous entities disturb the boundaries between the “natural” and the supernatural, the human and the non-human, the living and the dead. Marxists have drawn comparisons between the vampire’s parasitic need to feed on blood and capitalism’s exploitation of labor. Through the character of Carral, who I read as a femme vamp figure, I argue that vampires have redemptive qualities that illuminate our fundamental dependence on others to survive. Hval's novel illustrates the essential, confronting fact that we need one another, and more so than ever in precarious times. In the context of the climate crisis, neoliberal individualism, and ongoing economic instability, understanding our indebtedness to one another and our environments is crucial for planetary survival. Ties of care in late capitalist societies are complex, messy, and unequal, yet by recognizing our reliance on one another, we might, as scholar Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (2018) argues, realize a utopia where one’s dependence on others cannot, and need not, be concealed.

Love, Defiance, and Tradition: Examining Zhu Yingtai’s Challenges to Conventional Marital Norms in The Butterfly Lovers

This paper investigates the timeless Chinese legend of The Butterfly Lovers, focusing on the character Zhu Yingtai and her poignant challenges to conventional marital norms. Set against the backdrop of ancient China’s rigid societal expectations, the narrative unfolds as Zhu Yingtai, disguised as a man, defies prescribed gender roles, pursues education, and engages in a clandestine love affair. Through a comprehensive literary analysis, the paper explores Zhu Yingtai’s character, her motivations, instances of defiance, and the consequences faced within the societal framework. The study extends to the broader cultural impact of Zhu Yingtai, examining the influence on subsequent literature, arts, and societal perspectives in China. Furthermore, it discusses the enduring relevance of Zhu Yingtai’s defiance in the context of evolving views on love and marriage in contemporary society. By intertwining literary analysis, cultural impact assessment, and societal relevance, this paper contributes to a nuanced understanding of love, defiance, and tradition in Chinese literature.

A Study on Pattern of Suicidal Deaths Brought for Medicolegal Autopsy at Mortuary of Siddhartha Medical College and Govt. General Hospital, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh

Background: The aim is to study the pattern of suicidal deaths, demographic profile including various contributary factors of victims and analyze the magnitude of deaths in and around Vijayawada part of Andhra Pradesh so that preventive measures can be set up to avoid such situation. A death by suicide is defined as the deliberate termination of life. For a death to be a suicide, it should be an un-natural death, the desire to die should originate within the person, and there should be a reason for ending their life, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. While India’s suicide rate of 14.04/lakh population in 2019 puts it at 49th rank globally, the grim reality of the highest numbers of suicides being reported annually from India cannot be overlooked. When you look at suicide deaths, the highest suicide rates are in the south. In central India, including Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, you have “middling suicide rates”, and the rate falls up north, in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.Material & Methods: A five years retrospective and cross-sectional study was conducted in Forensic Medicineand Toxicology Department, Siddhartha Medical College, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh. All the autopsiesconducted on victims of suicidal deaths during the period from Jan, 2016 to Dec, 2020 were studied from theavailable data. Inclusion criteria includes all the suicidal deaths due to poisoning, hanging and self-immolation by burns. Exclusion criteria includes suicidal deaths from causes other than poisoning, hanging and suicidal burns like drowning, electrocution, fall from height etc.Results: It is clear that committing suicide by consuming poison accounts for major number of deaths followed by committing suicide by hanging and least followed by committing suicide by self-immolation. It is also clear that committing suicides has increased year by year from 2016 to 2020 irrespective of committing suicide by hanging, poisoning. Coming to sex pattern, suicide by hanging was observed more in males. Sex pattern in suicidal deaths due to poisoning clearly showed that females outnumbered males. Sex pattern in suicidal deaths due to self-immolation clearly showed that females outnumbered males with high margin. Coming to the age pattern in committing suicidal deaths by hanging, 30 – 45 years age group showed highest incidence year by year followed by 45 – 60 years and least among 15 – 25 years age group. Where as in case of suicidal deaths by poisoning and self-immolation, incidence was highest in 30 – 45 age group followed by 15 – 30 years age group and least among 45 – 60 years group.
 Conclusion: According to the World Health Organization, in India, suicide is an emerging and serious publichealth issue. Suicide rates in India have been rising over the past five decades. India’s contribution to globalsuicide deaths increased from 25.3% in 1990 to 36.6% in 2016 among women, and from 18.7% to 24.3% among men. In 2016, suicide was the most common cause of death in both the age groups of 15–29 years and 15–39 years in India. Factors such as frustration, family problems, love affairs, poverty, harassment, sexual violence, social boycott, chronic diseases and bankruptcy were studied as the main reasons leading to committing of suicides in people.The need for a strategy which will raise awareness and help make suicide prevention a national priority has to be recognized. Such a national strategy will need a comprehensive approach that encompasses the promotion,coordination, and support of activities to be implemented across the country at national, regional, and local levels.The program would need to be tailored for populations at risk.