Love Story Research Articles

Plot, Characters, and Representation: Patterns and Gaps in Award-Winning LGBTQ Children’s Books

ABSTRACT Children’s books representing LGBTQ identities are a vital part of elementary school classrooms and libraries, as well as family resources, and more of these diverse books have been published over recent years. While existing research on these books catalogs how many of them represent traditionally marginalized groups, our research examines the diversity of narratives within these books. In this study, we used narrative critical content analysis to examine 51 books from three award lists: the Lambda Literary Awards, the Rainbow Booklist, and the Stonewall Book Awards for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. These books are age-appropriate for read-alouds for all elementary grade levels based on their text complexity and storylines. We categorized books with identity-based conflicts and conflicts not based on identity. Overall, we found that books rely heavily on LGBTQ identities as the main source of conflict, using repeated plotlines of coming out, resisting bullying, love stories, and LGBTQ rights. In most cases, these repeated plotlines limit representation of LGBTQ people’s complex, multifaceted lives. We discuss the implications of these repeated plotlines, and we provide a list of recommended books that represent LGBTQ characters with more multifaceted lives and provide more unique stories.

SANS and SAXS: A Love Story to unravel structural evolution of soy proteins and polysaccharide fibres during high moisture extrusion for meat alternatives

Plant-based meat alternatives are seeing considerable interest due to their potential to reduce environmental burden and enhance population health. The food industry, therefore, seeks routes to provide the consumer with whole-cut plant-based products that closely resemble meat products. High-moisture extrusion (HME) of plant proteins enables the industrial manufacturing of meat-like products with highly hierarchical structural organisation of fibres. The major bottleneck in serving the growing market for these products is a lack of insight into how multiscale structures evolve during shear processing. Furthermore, it remains an open question of how two biopolymers, one being a plant protein and the other being a polysaccharide, contribute to the anisotropic structure formation during HME. This study shows how the complementary use of small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) and small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) can add clarity to these matters, benefiting from the different contrasts in scattering length density (SLD) encountered with each of these methods. It is demonstrated that two biopolymers have differences in the development of structural anisotropy. The protein fibril alignment starts in the extruder section with its further development along the cooling die. On the other hand, for polysaccharide fibres, the strongest local alignment has been found in the transition zone.

Love story or fling? The first observation of Vorticella sp. (Ciliophora: Peritrichia) on the freshwater snail Gyraulus rossmaessleri (Auerswald, 1852)

Love story or fling? The first observation of Vorticella sp. (Ciliophora: Peritrichia) on the freshwater snail Gyraulus rossmaessleri (Auerswald, 1852)

God as both Hierarchical and Egalitarian: A Kierkegaardian Proposal Based on Philosophical Fragments

After highlighting Søren Kierkegaard's emphasis on the absolute difference between God and humans, this article presents his explanation of why we can readily embrace our inferior position to God, which appeals to his understanding of love as involving the desire to be the guilty party. But this argument can be turned around to make a case that God would desire to be the guilty party in relation to us. This fits well with the story of God's love in Kierkegaard's pseudonymous writing Philosophical Fragments, in which divine incarnation is interpreted as God's descent in history to establish equality with humans. After arguing that such a kenotic Christology is not incompatible with the absolute God-human difference because it accentuates the fact that only God can cross the divide, the author points out its similarity with Marilyn Adams’ view that God became the curse in Jesus to cancel out the power of the curse of sin. He finishes by dealing with the worry that, despite divine descent, some humans may be unable to stand boldly confident before God because of their memory of what their sinfulness has caused. One way to alleviate this worry is to adopt the Irenaean affirmation of God's ultimate responsibility, and the author claims that this would complete Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments by adding an interpretation of the crucifixion in line with its story of divine descent.

“Mis arreos son las armas” and Other Romances in Don Quixote: Inspiration, Parody, and Verisimilitude

Fragments of romances throughout Don Quixote elucidate the worldview of the eponymous hero as he reinvents himself as a knight errant. Narrating stories of conquest, loss, love, betrayal, and valor, these late medieval Spanish ballads contextualize Don Quixote’s mission of correcting the injustices of an indifferent world. Cervantes also draws others into Don Quixote’s imagined world by weaving romances into the speech of the innkeeper who dubs him a knight, Sancho Panza, Ginés de Pasamonte, and Altisidora. This article considers six romances that Don Quixote and these individuals cite: “Mis arreos son las armas,” “Nunca fue caballero,” and “El marqués de Mantua” in Part 1; and “Asentado está Gaiferos en el palacio real,” “Ayer fui señor de España,” and “Mira Nero de Tarpeya” in Part 2. These romances reflect Don Quixote’s self-understanding as an avatar of knight errantry as well as the folly of this undertaking, while also impacting others who (un)wittingly contribute to this perspective. The analysis of these texts aims to advance the study of romances in the novel by emphasizing how they compel Don Quixote to regard his inventions as truthful and how other characters use these poems to bolster the credibility of their own worldviews.

Stories and Selves: A Twisted Love Story about the Meaning of Life

AbstractI argue that stories are ‘equipment for living’ in two senses: retrospectively, they provide ‘configurational comprehension’ of a temporal sequence of events; prospectively, they offer templates for action. Narrative conceptions of the self appear well poised to leverage these functional roles for stories into an intuitively compelling view of self-construction as self-construal. However, the narrative conception defines selves in terms of the lives they live: a self is the protagonist in a lifelong story. And narrative structure is itself defined by ‘retrospective necessity’: the meaning of events within a story is given by their contribution to that story's ending. Together, this entails that life stories hold selves metaphysically, epistemically, and practically hostage to their ends. Fortunately, narratives are just one species of interpretive frame. I suggest some alternative types of frames, including identity labels and metaphors, that support configurational comprehension, action guidance, and self construction without shackling selves to their lives’ ends.

CONSUMMATE LOVE VALUED BY STERNBERG’S TRIANGULAR OF LOVE REFLECTED IN “SUNRISE IN HEAVEN” (2019) MOVIE: PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH

Abstract This study aims to explain and analyze the phenomenon of love proposed by an expert Robert J Sternberg to the main characters in the film Sunrise in Heaven (2019). This research is a type of qualitative descriptive research, and the data source taken is the film Sunrise in Heaven (2019). This film is based on Jan Hurst's true-story novel entitled "His Sunrise, My Sunset," which she wrote herself. This story tells about Jan Nichols' love journey with her husband, Steve Hurst. The researcher found that the love story of the main characters, Steve and Jan, reflects the type of consummate love created by Robert J. Sternberg. Steve and Jan were able to represent the elements of Passion, Intimacy, and Decision/Commitment in their love journey. A love story that at first was not approved by Jan’s father, but with the strength of their love, they can prove that their love is eternal until they are parted by death. Keywords: Consummate love, Decision/Commitment, Intimacy, Passion, Triangular theory of love

Fashioning the intimate: a cartography of autobiographical French documentary film

ABSTRACT In the 1980s, the French documentary field opened up to a number of autobiographical practices which redrew the frontiers of the cinematic landscape. L’Heure exquise (‘The exquisite hour’) (René Allio, 1980), Lettres d’amour en Somalie (‘Love letters in Somalia’) (Frédéric Mitterrand, 1982) and Mourir à trente ans (‘Dying at thirty’) (Romain Goupil, 1982) are the notable signs of this change. This shift was confirmed in the years that followed, as borne out by La Pudeur ou l’Impudeur/Modesty and Shame (Hervé Guibert, 1992), Rome désolée/Desolate Rome (Vincent Dieutre, 1995) and Je suis venue te dire (‘I came to tell you’) (Laetitia Masson, 1997), to name but a few. These films are investigations and confessions that tell stories of love or sickness, happiness or sorrow. Faced with grief and reparation, the act of creation is motivated by a quest and a recovery of the self. In the 2000s, initiatives diversified, based (sometimes politically) on the societal context of the period within which the filmmakers worked (family, genre, etc.). In this article, the author assembles a three-stage filmic cartography and defines issues at stake in this intimate autobiographical dimension forged over 40-odd years by French documentary films.

(INTER)FACING EMPATHY:

Screen technologies, ranging from the cinema to the smartphone, are taken for granted in the contemporary screen landscape. This landscape has been referred to as the “screen-sphere” (Sobchack 2014) owing to the fundamental ways screens affect how people understand and relate to the world around them. It is particularly their structural and operative functioning as interfaces that influence not so much how we use screens, but, more importantly, how they affect our communication with and feelings towards others. In so doing, the screen as an interface profoundly transforms people’s capacity for empathy. This article exposes the intersection of the screen and the face of the celebrity persona in an artwork by Candice Breitz titled Love Story (2016). Since the installation focuses attention on the faces of its subjects, it utilises the enormous power of the face in generating empathic responses. More specifically, the face of the celebrity persona cultivates both fascination and empathy in this work. Through a close analysis of this installation, I aim to show how empathy can be controlled and manipulated just as much as it can be compromised due to our screen-based day-to-day practices and our interactions with the faces of others. This article also demonstrates the crucial role that an artwork can play in raising awareness about the consequences of screens on our empathic resonance with others.

‘Bridal Outfits from the Heart of Filmland’: Clothes Rationing, Wartime Film Production and Gainsborough Pictures’ Studio Hire Service

This article explores the Studio Hire Service, a wardrobe ‘pooling’ scheme set up by Gainsborough Pictures at the Shepherd’s Bush film studio following the introduction of clothes rationing in 1941. The Service enabled producers to hire rather than purchase items of clothing for use in their films, saving them money, reducing the number of new outfits required for each production and allowing clothing coupons, which film-makers were expected to use sparingly, to be spent on only the most important or unusual costumes. Vital to the production sector in wartime Britain, the Studio Hire Service also played a notable role outside the film industry, not least in that it loaned outfits – including those worn by major female stars in films such as Love Story (1944) and Waterloo Road (1945) – to women for them to use as wedding dresses. In the last years of the war and the early years of the peace, hundreds (and possibly thousands) of British brides were married wearing a film-studio dress. The contribution that costume made to contemporary enjoyment of many of Gainsborough’s most famous films has been noted by scholars; this article shows that some of these same costumes also had a significant role to play in the real-world experiences of many ordinary Britons, offering access to a glamorous bridal outfit in a period of widespread sartorial scarcity and providing a noteworthy example of the way in which the bond between the picturegoer and the cinema extends beyond the auditorium.

Revisiting Colonial Encounters in Maitreyi Devi’s It Does Not Die: A Romance: A Postcolonial Perspective

The Indian novelist, Maitreyi Devi’s account of her love story with Romanian novelist, Mircea Eliade came out in 1974 as Na Hanyate in the Bengali language and its English version was titled It Does Not Die in 1976 by the author herself. Following Nirmala Menon’s critical insights on Bhabha’s (post)colonial hybridity discourse, this study aims to reinterpret the novel as an illustrative text of postcolonial “interrogative hybridity.” Devi employs hybridity in such a way that it unsettles a linear narrative with constant shifts in focus and style. It is upheld that her ingenious hybridity originates from her position as an off-center postcolonial female writer who critiques colonial stereotypes and mimicry by revisiting/challenging colonial discourse constructed against the colonized by the colonizers. Hence, the study explores how her novel is a postcolonial hybrid counter-narrative text to colonial fantasies. To conclude, postcolonial hybridity can only problematize colonial individuations and representations, if it reverses the seemingly sound effects of colonial discourse in such a way that “other ‘denied’ knowledges” enter upon the dominant discourse and estrange the basis of its authority—its rules of recognition.

Study on the Evolution of Endings and Genre Conventions in the Yingying Love Story

Study on the Evolution of Endings and Genre Conventions in the Yingying Love Story

Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai & Status of Women: Status of Women in Shah Jo Risalo; an Idealized Portrayal of Sassui in Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai's Sur Sassui Aburi

Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai's depiction of Sassui in his poetry serves as a powerful call to women in Sindh in particular and the rest of Latif’s audience, in general, to break free from societal constraints. Sassui's tragic love story symbolizes the struggles faced by women in pursuit of true love, yet her unwavering determination, faith, and loyalty remain unshaken. This research focuses on the portrayal of Sassui in eleven Dastans from Sur Sassui Aburi, translated by Sheikh Ayaz. Shah Latif's representation of Sassui across five Sur of Shah Jo Risalo inspired women across the subcontinent, particularly in Sindh. Through qualitative thematic analysis, this study explores Shah Latif's efforts to amplify Sassui's voice beyond his era, showcasing his feminist perspective and vision. It aims to inspire contemporary Pakistani women to stand up against the regimented norms and defy the social, psychological, and legal barriers that restrict their liberties and will.

Rejecting Rochester: C. French Richards and the Queer Legacy of Jane Eyre

ABSTRACT In September 1864, The New York Times ran a brief advertisement for a new novel titled John Guilderstring’s Sin, declaring it “an intense and passionate love story, in the ‘Jane Eyre’ style.” By so labelling the novel, this advert presented its author, C. French Richards, as a member of the “Jane Eyre school”: a term coined by Godey’s to describe the host of successful American women authors who rewrote Charlotte Brontë’s iconic plot for a largely conservative antebellum and wartime audience. Richards, however, failed to attract the popular following of her fellow “Jane Eyre” authors, who typically sanitised Brontë’s hedonistic hero and doubled down on the rewards of the marriage plot. Richards distinguishes herself by writing a “Jane Eyre” novel that rejects rather than embraces heteronormative romance. She presents her own Byronic male lead, the titular John Guilderstring, as a corrupt, undesirable choice for her consciously androgynous heroine, Mattie, whose chivalric courtship of women serves as an antidote to his predatory behaviour. By presenting Mattie’s navigation of queer womanhood and toxic masculinity via a rewriting of the widely read Jane Eyre, Richards defies the American “Jane Eyre school’s” stranglehold on Brontë’s text.

Reproducing Memories and Portrayal of the Concept of Virginity in Turkey through Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence

The Museum of Innocence (2009) delves into love and everyday objects of love to explain the country's cultural emissions and political issues due to cultural contradiction with few characters in the novel. The novel is planned as a love story but is written in a decidedly unorthodox narrative style. The narrative is focused on the lovers' connection and revolves around Kemal's alterations due to his love for Fusun. He brings the supernatural close to the material, combining them most unexpectedly. Pamuk's construction of the actual museum in the memory of Fusun was discussed. Pamuk spoke about the memories of Fusun in Kemal's story narration with the portrayal of cultural indifference in Turkey. Further, this paper brings out the clash between fundamental traditional Islam and modern secularism by portraying the westernisation lifestyle of Istanbul's bourgeois society. The research paper concentrated on women's status and depicted the concept of virginity.

Analisis Resepsi Penonton Mengenai Hubungan Beda Agama dalam Film Akhirat: A Love Story

Films do not become a reflection of reality in a real building. This research is in progress to find out the reception of the film Akhirat: A Love Story in Jakarta, the plot of the film Akhirat: A Love Story which addresses the issue of interfaith marriages. The theory used in this research is the theory of encoding and decoding. This research uses qualitative accession with reception analysis method. The results of this research show that the four informants in this research agree that Akhirat: A Love Story is a film that has a narration as strong as that of a different religion. On the other hand, the three informants in posizi oposizi aka this film also reflect on the causes and effects of religious entities that are embedded in an image of romance. According to the informant, Sanghe is in a position of negotiation, takama, describing the blessing of parents, as well as the struggle of appearances of different religions is described in a sequence of psychological and physical conditions. Informants in the dominant position of ipsuttu akaa who do not approve of romantic relationships of different religions are wise liars.

Tribal Social Life Reflected in Bishnuprasad Rabha`s Novel `Mising Koneng: A Study

Assam’s social, cultural, economic, political, etc. One of the people to be taken in writing is Bishnu Prasad Rabha. Bishnu prasad Rabha is known in the society as a lyricist. He was a novelist, lyricist and storyteller. A social novel written by Rabha Dev on the basis of the people is missing koneng novel. This novel is a mising village novel. The national history of a nation can be found in the national activities of that nation, festivals, songs, etc. Among the national events of the Misings are ‘Ali-Ai-Ligang’ and ‘Porag’ festivals are their traditional festivals. Traditionally celebrated ‘Ali-Ai-Ligang’ and ‘Porag’ festivals are agricultural festivals of the Misings people. On the evey of the arrival of spring, Ali-Ai-Ligang, an ancient festival carried by Bordaisila Jak, which passes through the bosom of Assam, brings joy, happiness and prosperity to the Misings. Bishnu Prasad Rabha Mising Koneng gives details about mising folk festivals in the novel.Among the national events of the Misings are ‘Ali-Ai-Ligang’ and ‘Porag’ festivals are their traditional festivals. Traditionally celebrated ‘Ali-Ai-Ligang’ and ‘Porag’ festivals are agricultural festivals of the Mising . On the evey of the arrival of spring, Ali-Ai-Ligang, an ancient festival carried by Bordaisila Jak, which passes through the bosom of Assam, brings joy, happiness and prosperity to the Misings. Bishnu Prasad Rabha narrates the details of mising folk festivals in the novel Mising koneng.BishnuPrasad Rabha is a worshipper of love. So maybe love is expressed individually in the novel Mising koneng. The novel narrates the love story of kumong and heroine Parasli and later the mindset of their married life. The context of the novel is a mising society and the timing of the 20th century. By the advent of the 20th century, the anti-British position created across India began to increase greatly. The swirling winds of independence that passed through the hearts of the people of India had raised the skies of Assam. Our birth condition of freedom. In view of these aspects, the research paper has been prepared for the purpose of discussing the novel Mising Koneng.

Romance as a medium-Lin Huiyin’s relationships in transmedia intertextual discourse

ABSTRACT Lin Huiyin (1904–1955) was the first woman architect in modern China. Her romantic love stories have shaped a discourse that, for optimal engagement, both provides and requires transmedia and intertextual media theories. This research examines Lin’s romantic stories that entangled with her career and life, from the perspective of media ecology, narrative, and gender studies. I argue that although the Chinese media environment is censored, constrained, and scrutinized, given enough time and movement among multiple platforms, a medium can shape its own ecology and develop “organic” discussions on a subject that is commonly perceived as less political and more humanistic, particularly romantic love. These discussions provide a more spontaneous discourse for media users to share their opinions and expose more genuine views on gender, nation, and morality. These topics require continuing conversations rather than didactic education to change. Although change usually does not occur quickly, the airing of genuine yet problematic opinions helps the public and stakeholders observe, identify, and interact with them and create the possibility to reshape public opinions on gender roles, particularly women’s roles in romantic discourse, which always interacts with women’s individual realization as well as professional, familial, and social relationships.

A Bildungsroman in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story

Changes: A Love Story is a Bildungsroman novel written by Ama Ata Aidoo, and it was published in 1991. A Bildungsroman novel that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of Esi, the protagonist. The Changes: A Love Story follows the life of Esi Sekyi, a Morden Ghanaian woman who struggles to balance her career, marriage, and personal identity in society. Esi divorces her husband, Oko, because he raped her without her acknowledgement. Then Esi entered a polygamous marriage with Ali Kondey, he is a successful businessman. Then Esi soon realizes that her new marriage life does not give her freedom, happiness, or what she expected, and she also faces criticism and is kept apart from her family, friends, and society. Then she learns more about herself, her cultural values, and the value of her life. And it was published in the feminist press.

Zubaidah Bint Ja’far and Her Effects in Cultural, Artistic, and Social Life in Her Period

Baghdad emerged as a thriving city in the early era of the Abbasids and renowned for its affluence and cultural advancement during the caliphate of Harun al-Rashid. Notably, women belonging to the upper echelons of society, including but not limited to the caliph's consorts and concubines, assumed active roles in both society and politics. Zubaidah bint Ja’far, the wife of the Caliph Harun al-Rashid, was an influential woman who utilized her position to engage in philanthropic activities and contribute to the development of society. Their love story has become famous and Zubaidah, with her intelligence and beauty, fascinated the Caliph and influenced his decisions. Zubaidah was also recognized for her generosity towards scholars and poets. Her life and contributions to the era are documented in historical texts and literary works of the time, such as the Thousand and One Nights Tales. This study aims to examine the life and achievements of Zubaidah bint Ja'far during the Abbasid era, focusing on her contributions to politics, society, and literature. She played a significant role in the administration of the state alongside her husband, and served as inspiration for poems and tales in Thousand and One Nights collection. The analysis of the Thousand and One Nights Tales involved using a descriptive method and historical research to present how her personality is perceived by people of her time and emphasize her lasting legacy.