Love Story Research Articles

Tradition and Innovation in the Making of “About Ram”: A Contemporary Indian Puppeteer and a Ramayana Scholar in Conversation

Anurupa Roy, director of a troupe of puppeteers in Delhi, India, discusses with Paula Richman, emerita professor at Oberlin College (USA), various facets in the creation of her puppet play About Ram. Roy wanted the audience to experience the diversity of the Ramayana tradition as a tragic love story about a hero (first a prince and later a king) who feels duty-bound to banish his wife with the result that he remains alone for the rest of his life. The play is filled with images of the hero’s past life through animation of his memories and weapons on a screen mounted on stage and music with no words but with a percussion emphasis that draws upon different musical instruments from various regions. Over the period of improvisation by which the performance developed, Roy made the war scenes very stylized and the animator contemporized the weapons to include jet propulsion and machine guns. As part of her goal to develop an embodied language for contemporary puppet practice in India, Roy incorporated dances based on martial arts, which led to a grammar of movement for the puppet performance that was contemporary and engaging.

<i>Odontoglossum crispum</i>: a tale of love, loss and scientific discovery

This is the story of Odontoglossum crispum (Oncidium alexandrae), from the 19th century to the present day. It is a love story because Odontoglossum crispum was considered by many to be the most beautiful of all orchid species. It was collected by the hundreds of thousands from the cloud forests of its native Colombia and exported to Britain, the rest of Europe and the USA. Vast numbers were lost in transit. When they arrived many perished due to a lack of understanding of its needs in cultivation. Only the ‘best’ forms were grown, and the remainder discarded. Today much of its native habitat has either disappeared or been despoiled due to human actions. Few plants remain in cultivation in the UK. It was one of the first species to be grown commercially from seed, most notably in the UK by Charlesworth & Co., following the scientific discovery by Noël Bernard that orchid seeds required the participation of a suitable fungus to germinate under natural conditions.

Nāzilat dār al-akābir e il tentativo di riconciliazione sociale in Tunisia

Abstract In Nāzilat dār al-akābir (“The misfortune of the house of notables”, 2020), Amīra Ġanīm (1978) creates a fiction that fascinates Tunisian and Arab readers, reopening at the same time the debate on the significance of the historical character of al-Ṭāhir al-Ḥaddād (1899–1935), one of the most revolutionary social reformers of the 20th century. The misfortune to which the title refers is linked to the discovery of a mysterious letter sent by al-Ḥaddād to a young scion of a family of notables from the Tunis medina, Lallā Zubayda. The find raises the suspicion of an illicit love story between the two protagonists, triggering a series of heavy reactions and cascading events. To bring out the weight of al-Ḥaddad’s positions on colonial powers and the women’s rights issues, Ġanīm supports her fiction with historical documentation. Through the role of eleven narrators she manages to connect important events of almost a century ago with contemporary ones, up to the revolution against the Ben Ali regime and beyond it. In the article I intend to argue how Lallā Zubayda and her faithful maid, Luwīza, represent the two faces of the same country, symbols of a Tunisia martyred by patriarchal powers, colonialism and erroneous post-colonial policies, which have created the objective conditions for various internal clashes. The implicit message of the novel would be an urgent call towards a social reconciliation between social classes after an acute reflection on Tunisian identity and women’s rights, in a period of difficult political transition.

Narratives of Resilience and Marginality: A Study of Gender and Identity in Mahasweta Devi’s Till Death Do us Part

This research paper delves into the thematic exploration of gender identity, female resilience, and the subversion of societal norms in Mahasweta Devi's collection of translated stories, Till Death Do Us Part. The collection spans over thirty years and encompasses five stories: "The Divorce", "The Saga of Kagaboga", "The Poet's Wife", “He, said Pani”, and, “Love Story”. In these narratives, Mahasweta Devi deviates from the conventional satirical and socially-critical writing style and shows extraordinary sensitivity in the portrayal of her characters. The stories are centered on the lives of five elderly women who struggle with several challenges and societal constraints. Simultaneously, they diligently explore unconventional approaches to contest prevailing norms and masculine hegemony. This research study aims to dissect these distinctive qualities in Devi's storytelling within the context of her collection, “Till Death Do Us Part”.

Our Mother Bohwa Maria! Hyeonhi and Augustin, We Love you so much! (Tcheonzamun 849th-864th)

French Missionary Dallet (1874) gave the sincere explanation of ‘The thousand character essay’ to the Western World. The thousand character essay is called as Tcheonzamun (千字文) in Korea (Han, 1583). It is consisted of one thousand Chinese characters. It is generally considered that Tcheonzamun is the collection of story about a lot of Chinese heroes. But several researchers (Park et al., 2021a) began to consider that it is not true. It is the work of Korean language-speaking people (Park et al., 2021 b). Furthermore, Tcheonzamun book is not the story of heroes, it is but the work on the love between the husband and the wife (Kim, 2023). Sometimes, the story of love is interesting in Tcheonzamun. But many times, the sorrows of the wife are often shown (Park et al., 2021 b; Kim, 2023). Anyway, this time, the translation of a Tcheonzamun poem will be carried out. There are two methods for the translation. The first method is through Korean pronunciation of Chinese character on Tcheonzamun (Park et al., 2021 b). The second one is through the meaning of Chinese character on Tcheonzamun (Park et al., 2021 a). The theme of this research is as follows. 861-864 悅(Yeol) 豫(Ye) 且(Tcha) 康(Kang). My husband! It is the love (悅) without the stopping (且) in the communication (豫) among our friend and our whole family (康). Our mother Bohwa Maria lives. I (Augustin) and Hyeonhi say to her silently in our mind as follows. “Even though there is some difficulty for understanding each other among you and us, our mother Bohwa Maria, we love you sincerely!” Our mother Bohwa Maria! Hyeonhi and Augustin, we love you so much!.

Moral Values Of The Main Character In Little Women Movie Directed By Greta Gerwig

This study aims to determine the meaning of the main character's moral values in the film Little Women by Greta Gerwig. Jo as the main character in this film has an optimistic personality and is a hard worker. The March sisters only live with their mother, while their father goes off to war. Circumstances demand that Jo be someone who is independent and full of responsibility. The love story that didn't go well with Laurie made Jo start honing her skills in writing in New York until she finally found her true love, Friedrich. The method of this research is descriptive qualitative research to describe the contents of the film. In this study the authors analyze the data,on how the main characters life experiences make her moral life and analyze the meaning of moral values in the main character. The writer also finds that responsibility, pure heart, obligation and formality are the main character's moral values. In conclusion, the writer finds that Little Women contains data on moral values of five responsibilities, six pure hearts, one obligation, and three formalities. Keywords: Moral value; movie; character

Romancing the University: BIPOC Scholars in Romance Novels in the 1980s and now

English-language mass-market romance novels written by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) writers and starring BIPOC protagonists are a small but important group. This article is a comparative analysis of how recent representations of diversity in this sub-set of the genre, specifically the character of the Black academic and the language of racial justice, compare with the first group of BIPOC novels that were published in 1984 (Sandra Kitt’s Adam and Eva and All Good Things as well as Barbara Stephens’s A Toast to Love). In Adrianna Herrera’s American Love Story (2019), Katrina Jackson’s Office Hours (2020), and Talia Hibbert’s Take a Hint, Dani Brown (2020), the authors deploy the academic protagonists and setting to stage the intersections of gender, queerness, race, class, and immigrant histories, particularly as they manifest in academia, the supposed haven of free thought. In contrast to the 1984 BIPOC academic romantic protagonist, the more recent incarnation voices the cost that racism and sexism imposes even on seemingly successful people of color and articulates the structural changes and reparative policies that must be adopted for true equity.

INFLUENCE OF A MEDIATING TRANSLATION IN TRANSLATING ADDRESS FORMS IN THE MALAYALAM NOVEL, CHEMMEEN INTO FRENCH

Chemmeen (1956), a Malayalam novel by Thakazhi, narrates a love story set in a fishing village. Its first English translation was done by Menon in 1962. This translation became the source text for a French translation in 1965. The French translation, being an indirect translation from Malayalam through English, mirrors largely the English version. This study focusses on studying how the various terms of address employed in the original Malayalam text have been translated into English and if they have influenced the French version. Newmark’s (1988) typology of translation procedures is employed to identify the procedures adopted in translating the terms of address into the mediating translation. Koller’s type of equivalences is applied to study what sort of equivalence has been achieved and the extent the mediating translation has influenced the French translation. The findings show that the English translation has, for the most part, communicated the address forms by providing descriptive and functional equivalents that do little to capture the original essence of the terms, resulting in their cultural significance not adequately portrayed. The French version, based on the English translation, has been clearly influenced by the mediating translation and hence does not convey the fishermen’s socio-cultural dimension effectively.

DEVELOPMENT OF FEMINIST CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGH NEPALI FICTION IN NEPALI SOCIETY

This study tries to analyze Nepali fiction and its implication for raising feminist consciousness in the context of Nepal. I focused on 'consciousness' as a recognizable process on the path of awareness and self-consciousness of one's rights, passion, identity, autonomy, and self-control of lives against a male-dominated patriarchal society. Here, I have examined Nepali fiction named 'Anuradha' (1961). The female characters portrayed in this Novel are moving toward observable Feminism through their everyday interactions and situations, challenging the notion of masculinity, which is not monolithic or unidimensional. 'Anuradha' portrays a tragic love story between an introverted guy and a passionate woman named 'Anuradha,' who is a conscious and powerful personality revolt against inequalities and social injustices imposed upon females. The article helps to understand ideas of differences on Feminism and emancipation, which is very much indigenous and reflected psychologically in Nepali fiction, and not a Western borrowing.

The Reflection of Love in the Kurdish Novel

Love is one of the most important themes of literature. This is the main theme of stories such as Romeo and Juliet, Aucassin û Nicolette and Leyla and Majnun. However, many social, religious and philosophical problems are also discussed within the framework of the love story that these people experience. We can say something similar about Kurdish literature. In both classical and modern literature, the theme of love has been used as a tool for the expression of important problems. We can see a similar situation in the Kurdish novel. In this context, this study analyzes four kurdish novels whose main theme is love. These novels are Mehmet Uzun's Sîya Evînê, Helîm Yusiv’s Sobarto, Çîdem Baran's Li Peravê Torê Tora Evînê and Bextiyar Elî's Êvara Perwane. Although the main theme of Sîya Evînê is the love between Memdûh Selîm Beg and Feriha, the problematic of nationalism, colonialism in Sobarto, Kurdish identity in Li Peravê Torê Tora Evînê and the problem of subjectivity in Êvara Perwane are discussed. As a result, different political and social issues are discussed within the framework of the stories of the lovers.

Book Reviews: Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival by LaShawnDa Pittman

Book Reviews: <i>Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival</i> by LaShawnDa Pittman

The Impact of Feminism and the Outlook for Its Development: A Case Study of the Film Titanic

In the framework of a love story, the film Titanic portrays the behaviour and psychology of multiple characters with distinct personalities, shaping many unique female and male images. While telling the story, it expresses profound feminist ideas, illustrates the conflict between two genders, and leads people to think deeply about gender relations. In this paper, the author analyzes some representative characters in the film and examines the impact of feminism on literature, film, economy, and politics, emphasizing the importance and potential of women in various fields. It is found that feminism encourages women to start and participate in a business, and it promotes the success of women in the fields of technology and business. Finally, this paper discusses the development and challenges of feminism in contemporary society. Feminism not only provides important support for the cause of gender equality but also inspires more people to pay attention to gender equality issues and strive to build a more just and inclusive society. The influence of feminism will continue to drive social development and change.

Շիրակի վիպական բանահյուսությունը

Epic folklore occupies a special place in the folklore heritage of the Armenians of Shirak. The genres of Shirak's epic folklore (fairy tales, common tales, animals, epic tales, epic love stories, realistic tales, stories, traditions, legends, fables, jokes, unrealistic fables, memorials, etc.) represent local variants of pan-Armenian plots and motifs, with their own characteristic features.

Disney Setting and Changing Gender Stereotypes

Disney has been enthralling audiences of all ages with its timeless stories of adventure, love, and bravery for almost a century. However, a vast tapestry of societal impact is hidden below the outermost layer of its animated masterpieces. Disney has a narrative power that goes much beyond simple pleasure; it has the extraordinary capacity to influence, mirror, and even subvert cultural standards. Disney's contribution to the establishment and subsequent modification of gender norms is among the influence's most noteworthy features. This study aims to investigate the complex relationship that has developed between gender stereotypes and Disney's storytelling, both in the studio's products and in the larger cultural context. This paper seeks to further this continuing discussion by examining the ways that Disney's narrative has both upheld and challenged conventional gender stereotypes. This study will examine how gender roles are portrayed, Disney characters' agency, and messages about gender equality are communicated through a thorough examination of a few Disney classics and recent releases. Examining Disney's attempts to portray a broader range of identities and expressions of gender is also crucial, as the company increasingly recognizes the value of inclusivity and diversity in its narrative. This study will examine how Disney handles the challenging terrain of gender portrayal in the twenty-first century and how much these representations affect the opinions of its worldwide viewership.

Biomothers and Technobodies: Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein: A Love Story as the Technocritical Hybridization of Trans- and Posthumanism

Abstract In Frankissstein: A Love Story, the British writer Jeanette Winterson reclaims the epistemological value of the literary interpretation of existential questions around the posthuman. By retelling Mary Shelley’s gothic classic, Winterson assesses, both ethically and aesthetically, the consequences of artificial intelligence for traditional conceptions of gender, life (re)production, and the commodification of bodily desires, as well as their fusion at the intersection of technology and art. With the methodological support of recent studies on trans-/posthumanism and material/trans-corporeal feminism(s), this article will attempt to show how, by revindicating monstrosity as the legitimization of new forms of life and love, Winterson hybridizes trans- and posthumanist polarities and relativizes the rigidity of the debate around the de- and rematerialization of nature in the face of practices such as mind uploading, the mass production of sex robots, and enhancing biotechnologies, through a technocritical examination of the risks and possibilities of the com-posting of human and nonhuman matter.

Книга художников Павла и Натальи Мартыненко «Рукопашный танец»: опыт рецептивной эстетики

A book of an artist is a specific object of art presenting an authorial utterance overcoming the bounds of book-printing, in which either a text or a picture can be present. At the center of attention in the article is the book Rukopashnyi tanets. Istoriya lyubvi i sopernichestva, ob"ektivno otrazhennaya v dokumentakh i skhemakh, gde prichudlivo splelis' dva iskusstva: muzykal'no-khoreograficheskoe i voenno-rukopashnoe [Hand-to-Hand Dance. The Story of Love and Rivalry, Objectively Reflected in Documents and Schemes, in which Two Arts Have Fancifully Entwined: The Musical-Choreographic and the Hand-to-Hand-Military] (2010) created by Russian artists Pavel and Natalia Martynenko, which is examined in the angle of receptive aesthetics. The edition includes archival documents, photographs, drawings and schemes. On the basis of studies of this material, the author of the article interprets the artistic conception of the book in a philosophical sense. In the present art-object the notion is realized according to which life is a dance. Meanwhile, the process of the self-development of a personality involved in such a life appears in a ceaseless struggle with itself, as well as with the circumstances of life, which makes it possible to understand the title of the composition better. The book is begun and completed by music pages copied by hand by an anonymous music lover in the early 20th century. Such an artistic solution leads to the understanding of music by the ancient Greek sages. In particular, for the Pythagoreans music demonstrated itself as a sort of “Ariadne’s thread,” which determined the path towards the mysteries of existence, initiating the human being into universal harmony and thereby providing the opportunity of acting in unison with cosmic vibrations. Appealing to the opinion of Boris Asafiev, who asserted that gesture, along with mimic and dance, serves as a reference point in the creation of musical speech, the author arrives at the conclusion that the protagonists who become alive on the pages of the artist’s book, are led through life by music.

Reading Border through Desire: Queer Indigenous Theory, Nordic Settler Colonialism, and Trans Aesthetics

Abstract This article examines the Swedish fantasy-horror-romance film Gräns (Border, dir. Ali Abbasi, 2018) through queer Indigenous thought and the notion of trans aesthetics, exploring how the film may sensitize its viewers to seeing and feeling with gender variance, queer desire, and the trauma of settler colonialism. Drawing on Eve Tuck's call for desire-based research, the article asks what is at stake in queer, trans, and decolonial readings of films that are not necessarily identifiable as such at the surface level. Border centers on a love story between two gender-fluid trolls who pass as human and whose kin have been subjected to genocide, dislocation, and mutilation, but the film's reception largely misses the connection to the treatment of Indigenous Sámi people and transgender people within Nordic settler states. The article argues that Border's ecstatic depiction of gender-fluid desires, bodies, and sex, alongside its examination of the psychic consequences of settler colonial violence, make it a thus far unique film in the Nordic context — even though this examination happens through the distancing effect of trolls as metaphorical Natives. The main characters embody wrongness in the settler nation-state, in heteronormative society, and ultimately in the delimiting category of the human, but the film imagines rightness in nature as a queer, gender-fluid space where all creatures can just be. Through employing notions of trans aesthetics, the (non)sovereign erotic, refusal, and haunting, the article proposes desire-based readings of cinema that envision ways of feeling and existing beyond humancentric, settler, binary notions of gender and sexuality.

The Living Inheritance and Moving Progress of Contemporary Cantonese Opera from the Perspective of Communication

Between July 3 and July 28, 2023, Television Broadcasts Limited released the Hong Kong drama Unchained Medley, which used a small village in the countryside and Cantonese Opera as the backdrop for the drama. It tells a tragic and touching story of human-ghost love between pop musician Ivan Zhang and the female ghost Wan Lau Fong (Cantonese transliteration is used). Artistic elements in Unchained Medley - Cantonese Opera is an ancient form of traditional Chinese theater, a local performing art that employs Cantonese as the language of performance, singing, acting, reciting and traditional folk music, along with distinctive stage costumes and abstract forms. When reviewing Chinese and English papers published between 2019 and 2023, research on the analysis of Cantonese opera primarily focused on the transformation of performance forms and the creation of Cantonese opera repertoire content. However, there needs to be more in living inheritance with Cantonese Opera. This paper utilizes James W. Careys The Ritual View of Communication as a theoretical framework. The article mainly adopts methods such as literature review, case studies, and comparative analysis to elucidate the significance and complex dilemmas surrounding the vibrant communications of Cantonese opera in the post-COVID world. It then consolidates and summarizes research experiences related to the protection and universal transmission of Cantonese opera in every aspect, laying the foundation for the in-depth development of Cantonese opera research.

Women’s Dilemma of Love: An Ethical Literary Interpretation of Miss Sophie’s Diary by Ding Ling

ABSTRACT Miss Sophie’s Diary, a landmark novel by Chinese feminist writer Ding Ling, radically transformed traditional love stories for women. In this diary-style novel, a lady’s psychological activities are revealed by adopting a modern woman’s unique gender consciousness and the feminist discourse. As a remarkable literary work, it upended all previous love stories and centered on the eternal triangle between Sophie, the protagonist, and two male characters. Sophie’s behavior used to be criticized as immoral. However, these moral standards were gender-biased and did not necessarily apply to all women. In the following article, Sophie’s view of love is analyzed based on Gilligan’s ethics of care. It turns out that her love triangle caused inner conflicts that propelled her through three stages of growth: self-preservation, self-sacrifice, as well as balance and maturity. Her pursuit and rejection of love revealed the inner turmoil and pain of a feminist striving for independence in an oppressive era. Her diaries witnessed her growth in dealing with self–other relationships and ultimately made her stronger. By rising above the moral dilemmas, Sophie made her voice heard and became a role model for Chinese women in the new era.

Research on the Influence of War on Film Art Taking Casablanca During World War II as an Example

The monumental events of World War II deeply impacted numerous spheres of human life, including Hollywood cinema. This paper delves into the influence of WWII on Hollywoods thematic and narrative shifts, using the iconic film Casablanca (1942) as its focal point. Released amidst the wars tumult, Casablanca seamlessly blends a distinct love story with contemporary political dynamics, exemplifying Hollywoods adaptive response to wartime conditions. Through meticulous examination of Casablanca, this study gleans insights into Hollywoods filmmaking choices and content transformation against the wars backdrop, drawing from varied sources such as film archives, governmental records, and industry reports. This exploration vividly highlights the lasting impact of the war on cinema, positioning Casablanca as a paragon of the synergy between cinematic art and wartime politics.