Love, and the different manifestations of it, is a common theme in literature around the world. In Cosmopolitan Love, Sijia Yao examines the writings of D. H. Lawrence, a British writer whose ...literature focused primarily on interpersonal relationships in domestic settings, and Eileen Chang, a Chinese writer who migrated to the United States and explored Chinese heterosexual love in her writing. While comparing the writings of a Chinese writer and an English one, Yao avoids a direct comparison between East and West that could further enforce binaries. Instead, she uses the comparison to develop an idea of cosmopolitanism that shows how the writers are in conversation with their own culture and with each other. Both D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang wrote stories that are influenced by—but sometimes stand in opposition to—their own cultures. They offer alternative understandings of societies dealing with modernism and cultural globalization. Their stories deal with emotional pain caused by the restrictions of local politics and economics and address common themes of incestuous love, sexual love, adulterous love, and utopian love. By analyzing their writing, Yao demonstrates that the concept of love as a social and political force can cross cultural boundaries and traditions to become a basis for human meaning, the key to a cosmopolitan vision.
The Triangular Theory of Love (measured with Sternberg's Triangular Love Scale - STLS) is a prominent theoretical concept in empirical research on love. To expand the culturally homogeneous body of ...previous psychometric research regarding the STLS, we conducted a large-scale cross-cultural study with the use of this scale. In total, we examined more than 11,000 respondents, but as a result of applied exclusion criteria, the final analyses were based on a sample of 7332 participants from 25 countries (from all inhabited continents). We tested configural invariance, metric invariance, and scalar invariance, all of which confirmed the cultural universality of the theoretical construct of love analyzed in our study. We also observed that levels of love components differ depending on relationship duration, following the dynamics suggested in the Triangular Theory of Love. Supplementary files with all our data, including results on love intensity across different countries along with STLS versions adapted in a few dozen languages, will further enable more extensive research on the Triangular Theory of Love.
What is love? What is it to be loved? Can we trust love? Is it overrated?
These are just some of the questions Tony Milligan pursues in his novel exploration of a subject that has occupied ...philosophers since the time of Plato. Tackling the mood of pessimism about the nature of love that reaches back through Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard, he examines the links between love and grief, love and nature, and between love of others and loving oneself. We love too few things in the world, Milligan concludes, adding that we need to be loved too, to appreciate our own value and the worth of life itself.
What is love? What is it to be loved? Can we trust love? Is it overrated?
These are just some of the questions Tony Milligan pursues in his novel exploration of a subject that has occupied ...philosophers since the time of Plato. Tackling the mood of pessimism about the nature of love that reaches back through Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard, he examines the links between love and grief, love and nature, and between love of others and loving oneself. We love too few things in the world, Milligan concludes, adding that we need to be loved too, to appreciate our own value and the worth of life itself.
The monster within Almond, Barbara
2010., 20100904, 2010, 2010-10-04, 20100101
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Mixed feelings about motherhood--uncertainty over having a child, fears of pregnancy and childbirth, or negative thoughts about one's own children--are not just hard to discuss, they are a powerful ...social taboo. In this beautifully written book, Barbara Almond brings this troubling issue to light. She uncovers the roots of ambivalence, tells how it manifests in lives of women and their children, and describes a spectrum of maternal behavior--from normal feelings to highly disturbed mothering. In a society where perfection in parenting is the unattainable ideal, this compassionate book also shows how women can affect positive change in their lives.
The central question with regard to Nicholas Sparks's The Notebook is whether it is a novel of love or romance. Novels of love and romances are not the same. In romance novels, the character ...description is not limited. They can be described as common people with ordinary jobs or they can be socialites with extravagant profession.But the characters in love stories must be as real as possible. They cannot be luxurious people with extravagant jobs. A novel cannot be considered as a romance if there is no happy ending. But there is no clear explanation to what kind of ending a love story has to have. According to Sparks's views on characteristics of romance and love, he considers The Notebook as a novel of love. Even though, as readers, we respect the author's interpretation, the characters of his novel have typical romance characteristics, and it is likely that it was marketed as a romance novel because of the second cover of the novel.
V članku najprej na kratko orišem temeljne značilnosti glavnih zahodnih konceptov ljubezni in jih opredelim kot tiste, ki ne ponujajo sreče in zadovoljstva v partnerskem odnosu, zato ponudim svoj ...koncept zrele, odrasle in osrečujoče ljubezni, za katero si moramo aktivno, kreativno prizadevati.
The sensitivity of the phase velocity vp of Love surface waves to mass loading is a very important characteristic of Love wave devices. In this paper, we present a novel approach to evaluate the ...sensitivity of Love surface waves to loading with an infinitesimal layer of mass of a surface density σkg/m2. To this end, the we developed analytical formulas for the mass coefficient of sensitivity Sσvp=(1/vp)dvp/dσ m2/kg and phase velocity gradients −dvp(f)/df and −dvp(h1)/dh1, where f and h1 stand, respectively, for frequency of the Love wave and thickness of the guiding surface layer. We also established analytical formulas that relate the mass sensitivity Sσvp with 1) the relative slope (gradient) −(1/vp)dvp/dh1 of the phase velocity dispersion curve vp(h1), and 2) the relative slope (gradient) −(1/vp)dvp/df of the phase velocity dispersion curve vp(f). These analytical formulas have been developed using full wave theory. We have discovered that the maxima of the mass sensitivity Sσvpf, Sσvph1 and maxima of the relative gradients (-(1/vp)dvp)⁄df, −(1/vp)dvp/dh1, occur virtually at the same values of fandh1. Comparing with the Perturbation Method and Finite Element Method (FEM), the analytical formulas established in this paper display some advantages, such as very low execution time of the mass sensitivity , and perhaps more importantly a possibility for a direct parametric optimization of the Love wave waveguide as a function of its material parameters, thickness of the guiding surface layer and wave frequency .
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•Exact analytical model of Love wave sensors based on first principles was developed.•Exact analytical formulas for mass sensitivity of Love wave sensors were developed.•New formulas can significantly accelerate the design process of Love wave sensors.•Mass sensitivity is proportional to gradient of the phase velocity dispersion curves.
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