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1 day ago · Tolstoy is not known as a “poet of love.” Anna Karenina may lead some to reconsider this view, but we do not readily suspect that War and Peace may do so as well. Yet buried deep in the last part of War and Peace, Tolstoy makes a surprising statement: “Suddenly [Natasha’s] love for her mother showed her that the essence of life—love—was still alive in her.”
2 days ago · With the recent release of season three of the pop culture phenomenon Bridgerton, a regency-era television series based on a set of romance novels by Julia Quinn, the romantic genre (both in literature and in television) has moved to the center of a lot of social conversations. The popularity of this series is reflective of
4 days ago · Abstract. To understand how viewers respond to two common movie plots (falling in love and cheating), this study considers the perspectives they might take. Study 1 tests which protagonists’ perspective viewers adopt when watching movies with falling-in-love versus betrayal plots. Study 2 then shows that viewers’ perspective orientation ...
4 days ago · Shakespeare in Love, American-British film, released in 1998, that was a lighthearted and clever imagining of how William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet came to be written and produced.
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2 days ago · A nun demure of lowly port; Or sprightly maiden, of Love's court, In thy simplicity the sport Of all temptations; A queen in crown of rubies drest; A starveling in a scanty vest; Are all, as seems to suit thee best, Thy appellations.
3 days ago · As of 2023, there have been 29 English-speaking laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature, followed by French with 16 laureates and German with 14 laureates. France has the highest number of Nobel laureates.
4 days ago · An index to scholarly articles, books and book chapters, and dissertations published internationally on modern literatures, folklore, and linguistics (including composition and rhetoric) starting with 1926.
