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Taking up Antoine Compagnon’s thesis, according to which Sodom and Gomorrah constitutes a privileged place to look at the whole Proustian cycle, the article focuses on the social dimension of the novel, as well as on cruelty. In this context, the image of Jews and servants, and the role of the baron de Charlus are studied in particular. For the author also discusses the vision of love, especially homosexual, to show how Proust’s approach stems from sadism and masochism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Rocío Silva Santisteban (Lima, 1963) is the author of the poetry book Las hijas del terror (2007). This book addresses the complicated situation that women had to face as victims of the political violence that swept through Peru in the 1980s. In this situation, women were violated both by subversive movements and by state repression apparatuses. Silva Santisteban sets out to narrate this horror from the perspective of the women themselves, positioned as victims in these political confrontations. The purpose of this article is to analyze «BAvioLADA», one of the most representative poems of Las hijas del terror. The hypothesis to be demonstrated is that this text presents a staging of the treatment that women underwent in the context of the internal war, in which they were reduced to a sexual object, not only by members of subversive movements, but by the members of the Peruvian Armed Forces.

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Critics often divide Machado de Assis's work into a youthful, romantic and militant phase, and another one of maturity, skeptic and ironic. The examination of his theatrical work seems to indicate that at the end of his life the « wizard » tempered his acidity with the affection and love brought by married life. His dramatic production also allows us to understand how he dealt with the romantic concept of love and the position of women in the literary and dramatic treatment of this theme in Western tradition.

In this paper we focus on the comparative analysis between Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and its modern version, Anouilh’s Romeo and Jeannette. Anouilh is a representative of modern playwrights who evoke Shakespeare in their argument that a number of structures in our society are enemies of the authentic individual. What they adopt from Shakespeare is the capacity of man to relate with the world in a loving way. We argue that Anouilh’s Romeo and Jeannette fits the template of Shakespeare’s Tragic Equation – the mythical pattern present in all of the Bard’s works, the tragedy of the Lover devoid of love. These works evoke Shakespeare’s warning: that modern society is not conducive of love. On the contrary, the system is based on the suppression of genuine human affection; its re-emergence would subvert the dominant power-relations. In the introduction, we attempt to define the notion of romantic love by referring to the works of Bloom, Illouz, Vyvyan, etc. The following two segments of the paper deal with the analysis of the romantic relationship in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and its modern evocations in the work of Anouilh. In the conclusion, the destructive tendencies of the (modern) patriarchal society are yet again highlighted and linked to Shakespeare’s warning and desire to make his audience and readers perceive, judge and finally condemn them.

Serotonin (2019) undoubtedly represents Michel Houellebecq's most "Proustian" novel. His narrator, a forty-six-year-old agricultural engineer, who became desperately impotent by a regular absorption of "new-generation anti-depressants", scrutinizes his "phallocentric memory" to revisit all his missed appointments with the great Romantic Love that could have saved him. Our analysis proves that Serotonin is not just a "prefiguration of the Yellow vests movement", an "illustration of European agricultural crisis" or a "conservative flirt with Christianism" (which commentators are accustomed to identify in Houellebecq's work) but also a somewhat astonishing reflection on the functioning of memory and the mechanisms of love. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract This study verified the predictive relationships between social skills, beliefs about love and marital satisfaction in the family life cycle. The participants of this study were 446 married adults, of both sexes, living in the metropolitan area of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The explanatory variables that contributed most to the marital satisfaction of men were passion, proactive self-control, decision/commitment, and for women they were commitment, affective sensitivity, decision/commitment, and passion. It was concluded that the dimensions related to love constructs were more explanatory of marital satisfaction, except at the stage of couples with small children whose social skills were more prominent. These results may contribute to preparatory programs and therapies related to marital life.

An interview with author Gregoire Bouillier is presented. When asked about his autobiographical creation about his childhood and transition to adulthood, he refers to life as romantic in itself. He states that everyone's life has all elements of emotions including romance which are revealed gradually as the life goes on.

The article offers information on novelist Simone de Beauvoir. It states that Beauvoir had the tendency of showing the grief and pain of her life in her writings. It mentions that she also wrote about the last weeks of her mother's life in her memoir. It discusses about how much importance she gave to romance in her creations.

The article presents a report on the portray of romance in fiction. It mentions about the writing style of French author Colette who used to place literary space between autobiography and fiction. It also mentions about her professional experiences and love journey, which is reportedly not so pleasant.

The article offers information on the journal and newspaper "Journal Intime," of Goncourt brothers. It states that the publications of Goncourt brothers focused on romance infiction. It also states that they presented the memories of the literary life through their journal. It mentions that they proposed a testimony about the artistic and literary life of their time.

The article presents information on the category of romance in fiction. It states that memoirs are the works reading which the readers can visualize the adventures of the characters in the book. It also mentions about the works of Saint-Simon in the field of romance, and his thoughts on romanticism.

The article presents information on the author's views on romantic relationship in contemporary fiction. It mentions about the two essential dimensions of contemporary fiction which incude aesthetics romance stretched between adhesion and distancing, and the common imaginary created over the centuries.

The aim of this paper is to confront two opposite views on the romantic idea of love and its role in contemporary Western societies. According to one of the analysed perspectives, represented most fully by anthony gid dens, the romantic idea of love is seen as a dangerous delusion, bound to be abandoned in the rapidly changing societies of today. According to the other view, proposed by Pierre Bourdieu, romantic love is still the only means to escape the power of symbolic domination. In conclusion, both accounts are analysed in terms of their underlying mythologies: victorian in case of giddens, romantic in case of Bourdieu. Notions of ‘ontologi‑cal security’ and the ‘unity of the loving dyad’ are shown to be the cornerstones of powerful mythological systems encompassing our aims and modes of expression.

In Italy law has accepted “honour crimes” perpetrated by men until little more than 30 years ago. As cultural dimensions are often slower to change, it is interesting to analyze the capacity to account for femicides in the press in a period in which the topic has become more and more relevant all over Europe. Building on existing literature, this study explores how three major Italian newspapers frame crimes of intimate partner femicide. Using 166 articles published in 2012, the authors examine - by a thematic analysis conducted along different items - which aspects are conveyed by the news to account for the 53 intimate partner femicides reported in the press in this period. Findings suggest that while Italian news media heavily rely on narratives of love and passion to frame intimate partner homicide, a social discourse justifying the “loss of control” it is also used to sustain representation of femicides as crimes impossible to be prevented or predicted.

The process of individualization, associated with reflexive modernity, which assumes that individualactions are legitimized as a result of increased reflexivity, produces major changes in the universe oflove action. Following Anthony Giddens (1992), who observed that increased autonomy andreflexivity were both elements that have shaken the romantic love, Jean-Claude Kaufmann noticesthe deep changes occurring in the way in which romantic relations are experienced - while this typeof transformation happens slower in respect to love imagery. The space, a world increasingly strayedfrom traditions, opens up glorious new opportunities for individual autonomy and self-realization(Mottier, 2007), creating, at the same time, unprecedented pressures on long-term relationships, asmore and more women and men choose to live alone.

Ao considerar que o amor e o casamento estão sendo postos em xeque em nossa sociedade, na medida em que surgem novas configurações familiares, ou mesmo outras possibilidades de se vivenciar o sentimento amoroso, este artigo centra-se em discutir como a literatura infantil vem apresentando esses temas, a saber: como o amor romântico e a materialização deste sentimento, através das relações que se estabelecem a partir dele, têm sido representados nos livros de literatura infantil? De que forma as relações de gênero são veiculadas nessas obras? Como o casamento é visto na vinculação com as relações amorosas? Os resultados apontam que na maior parte das obras literárias infantis o sentimento amoroso ainda aparece associado à ideia de casamento; à mulher fica a responsabilidade da criação dos/as filhos/as; algumas histórias apresentam o amor romântico coligado à dor e à dificuldade de conquista. Também são recorrentes as características de amor à primeira vista e o empoderamento desse sentimento em transformar o outro.Considering that love and marriage have being jeopardized in our society, as new family patterns or even other possibilities on how to experience love emerge, my research problem is focused on discussing how children's literature has been presenting themes such as: how does romantic love and the materialization of this feeling, through relationships that are established based upon it, have been represented in children's literature books? In which ways are gender relationships depicted in these books? How is marriage seen in connection with love relationships? Results show that in most of children's literary pieces love feelings still appears associated with the idea of marriage; woman is still responsible for raising up children; some stories present romantic love linked with pain and the difficulty of conquest. The characteristics of love at first sight are also persistent, as well as the empowerment of this feeling in order to transform the other person.

El trabajo a realizar es un análisis sociocrítico de La vorágine (1924), de José Eustasio Rivera (Neiva, 1888-Nueva York, 1928). Su objetivo es dilucidar una de las tomas de posición presente en esta obra literaria, específicamente, la toma de posición romántica en relación con sus personajes femeninos y los valores socio-económicos de la modernidad y el capitalismo, para establecer su impacto en el campo literario colombiano. El análisis textual se encuentra ordenado a partir de los conceptos de posición romántica (Girard, 1963), cronotopo (Bajtín, 1986: 269) héroe novelesco (Lukács, 1974: 161-162) y sistema de personajes como ejes fundamentales en los que se despliega buena parte de la axiología de la novelaThis essay is a sociocritic analysis of the novel La vorágine (1924), written by José Eustasio Rivera (Neiva, 1888-New York, 1928). Its objective is to elucidate one of the existent axiological position presented in this literary work, specifically, the romantic one (Girard, 1963). The reading of the text is organized in two parts: first, the idealization of love, where it is established the construction of the romantic position taken in terms of love, the socioeconomic values of modernity and capitalism, taking into account the hero of the novel and the idealization of a woman, according to the women characters and their ideological voice.

Gregor A., Špajdel M.: Romantic love from a social neuroscience perspective In our work we describe romantic love in terms of cerebral activity and define its specific anatomic correlates. We also offer a sum of current knowledge coming out from the previous research in social neuroscience and provide a picture of how is brain activity connected with psychological processes. Analysis of gathered data shows Chat romantic love activates not only subcortical regions, which mediates a variety of emotions involved in motivation and reward-seeking, but also activates higher cerebral areas involved in social cognition, attention, memory, mental association, and self-representation. Romantic love has its strongest base in ventral tegmental area and caudate nucleus, which are the primar regions of infatuation respectively. Other regions such as cingular cortex, posterior hippocamus, and hypothalamus deal with attachment bond, sexual desire, and inclusion of other in the Self.

This paper approaches the phenomenon of the "romantic relationship" as understood within some of the most prominent paradigms in the social sciences. These interpretative frameworks are then applied to the model of the romantic relationship acquired during my own research on the concepts of romantic relationships among young professionals in Belgrade, Serbia. I argue that none of the presented frameworks can be solely relied upon to explain the phenomenon, but that in combination they do offer very valuable insights. This represents an example of how the application of dif­ferent paradigms in social sciences can help to clarify the nature of a phenomenon, rather than representing a ground for contestation.