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1	Lover's Discourse Fragments more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist Divided into thematic sections, this discussion of love--its language, characteristics, and thought processes of those involved--is thought to be based on Barthes's own homosexual love. With various literary, artistic, and cultural references, the work became hugely popular in France within months of its 1977 publication. Original French title: ... see all copies from $2.50! new only from $5.57! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Love and Friendship more books like this by Allan Bloom add to wishlist The author of the national bestseller The Closing of the American Mind offers a provocative indictment of the devaluing of love and intimacy in today's culture. Allan Bloom explores the language of love from the Bible to Freud, shedding penetrating light on the true nature of our most basic human connections. "(A) rich mine of a book".--New York ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Love in the Western World more books like this by Denis De Rougemont add to wishlist Denis de Rougement studies the history of the love affair in the Western imagination, from "Tristan and Isolde" to Hollywood. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.70! \| first editions
4	The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism more books like this by Octavio Paz add to wishlist In "The Double Flame," Paz explores the relationship between sex, eroticism, and love--themes that have been central to his fiction. Beginning with Plato's "Symposium," he provides a short history of love and the erotic in literature: from the influence of the great cities of Alexandria and Rome on the development of love elegy, to the courtly ... see all copies from $2.24! new only from $4.86! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Love and death in the American novel more books like this by Leslie A. Fiedler add to wishlist An examination of American literature and the American personality from the colonial period to the present day. Fieldler maintains that American literature is largely incapable of dealing with adult sexuality and is pathologically obsessed with death. see all copies from $3.30! new only from $4.96! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	(Per)Versions of Love and Hate more books like this by Renata Salecl add to wishlist Why, when we are desperately in love, do we endlessly block union with our love object? Why do we often destroy what we love most? Why do we search out the impossible object? Is it that we desire things because they are unavailable, and therefore, to keep desire alive, we need to prevent its fulfilment? In (Per)versions of Love and Hate, Renata ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Tales of Love more books like this by Professor Julia Kristeva, Professor Leon S Roudiez (Translator) add to wishlist In 'Tales of Love' Julia Kristeva pursues her exploration of the basic emotions that affect the human psyche. The processes are similar to those followed in 'Powers of Horror'. She begins with a statement from personal experience and follows it with a critical examination of the psychoanalytic position with respect to the matter at hand. see all copies from $6.70! new only from $32.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Disciplined Heart: Love, Destiny, and Imagination more books like this by Caroline J Simon add to wishlist 'This is a wise book, written in an engaging dialogue with some of our best novelists, philosophers, and theologians. Simon's profound reflections about the light that love sheds by the fore it carries deserve a wide audience.' see all copies from $2.24! new only from $5.94! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Kahlil Gibran: The Nature of Love more books like this by Andrew Dib Sherfan add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Love: A Celebration in Art & Literature more books like this by Jane Lahr (Editor), Lena Tabori (Editor) add to wishlist An oversize, beautifully designed volume celebrating various forms of love in literature and art. Textual excerpts include the words of Shakespeare, Vonnegut, and Millay, and art reproductions include works by Chagall, Brancusi, and many others. Divided into sections such as Young Love, Be Mine, Celebrations, Passion, Commitment, Enduring Love, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality more books like this by James A Schultz add to wishlist One of the great achievements of the Middle Ages, Europe's courtly culture gave the world the tournament, the festival, the knighting ceremony, and also courtly love. But courtly love has strangely been ignored by historians of sexuality. With "Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality", James A. Schultz corrects this ... see all copies from $28.55! new only from $28.55! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Shakespeare on Love and Friendship more books like this by Allan Bloom add to wishlist "No-one can make us love love as much as Shakespeare, and no-one can make us despair of it as effectively as he does". William Shakespeare is the only classical author to remain widely popular - not only in America but throughout the world - and Allan Bloom argues that this is because no other writer holds up a truer mirror to human nature. Unlike ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $11.93! \| first editions
13 view cover	Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination more books like this by Ruth Vanita add to wishlist This work looks at the legacy of love between women in the English canon from romantic to postcolonial literature. It examines layers of homoeroticism in works by male and female authors, and demonstrates the place of lesbian desire in the Western literary imagination. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.63! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Love Affair as a Work of Art more books like this by Dan Hofstadter add to wishlist A study of recently resurfaced personal writings by a variety of French writers including Sand, Sainte-Beuve, and de Musset. Hofstader shows how a knowledge of the erotic life of these primarily 19th century writers contributes to an understanding of the great French tradition of the love affair as an art form. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.80! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Pilgrimage of the Heart more books like this by John R Haule, Ph.D. add to wishlist This study of romantic love and human relationships draws together psychology, the mystical traditions of the world, and literature from Virgil to Milan Kundera to lead the reader inside the mind and heart of the lover. Each chapter explores a characteristic aspect of relationships such as seduction and love play, the rapture of union, the agony ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $37.10!
16 view cover	The Culture of Love: Victorians to Moderns more books like this by Stephen Kern add to wishlist In "The Culture of Love" Stephen Kern asserts that love itself merits its own history. Kern examines love over a period of profound change that bridges the years from "Jane Eyre" to the mid-1930s. The great 19th century novels of the Brontes, George Eliot, Victor Hugo, and Thomas Hardy and the modern classics of Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust, D.H. ... see all copies from $2.09! new only from $36.00! \| first editions \| SVS
17	Medieval Imagination more books like this by Douglas Kelly add to wishlist see all copies from $14.99! new only from $27.25!
18 view cover	Falling in Love: Stories from Ming China more books like this by Professor Patrick Hanan (Translator) add to wishlist Falling in love, with all its accompanying problems, was a subject of obsessive interest among writers and readers in the Ming Dynasty, when society held strictly to arranged marriages. The stories in this engaging collection all deal with this theme in very different ways, sometimes comically, sometimes tragically. They portray young people ... see all copies from $24.00! new only from $24.00! \| SVS
19 view cover	The Book of Courtly Love: The Passionate Code of the Troubadours more books like this by Andrea Hopkins add to wishlist For lovers--and lovers of romance--this lush treasury of French medieval lore illuminates the timeless stages of that most human experience--falling in love. More than 60 gorgeous, jewel-like illustrations adorn this celebration of the original laws of love. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Love and Language more books like this by Ilan Stavans, Veronica Albin add to wishlist Our understanding of love today is not the same as the one espoused by Plato in the fourth century BCE. Nor is it the same as the courtly love of the Renaissance, or love as defined by Stendhal or Proust or Freud. In this utterly original book, cultural critic Ilan Stavans engages in an exhilarating dialogue with Veronica Albin about love and its ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Shakespeare on Love more books like this by Benjamin Darling (Editor), William Shakespeare add to wishlist Shakespeare on Love is a collection of poems and quotes selected from the plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare. Fine-art, and book illustrations from Arthur Rackham, Charles Robinson, Richard Dadd, Henry Fuseli, Sir John Everett Millais, William Blake, Noel Paton, and William Holman Hunt will grace the pages of this elegant edition. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
22	The Expense of Spirit more books like this by Mary Beth Rose add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.16! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Latin Love Lessons: Put a Little Ovid in Your Life more books like this by Charlotte Higgins add to wishlist A hilarious and informative guide to relationships, "Latin Love Lessons" is comprised of romantic advice found in the masterworks of the greatest writers of the Greco-Roman period, including Catallus, Virgil, and Ovid. 38 b&w photos throughout. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| SVS
24 view cover	Shakespeare on Love & Lust more books like this by Maurice Charney add to wishlist "Shakespeare on Love and Lust" looks at the complex and sometimes contradictory expressions of love in Shakespeare's works - ranging from the serious to the absurd and back again - and argues that they arise primarily from his dramatic and theatrical flair rather than from a unified philosophy of love. Untangling his witty, bawdy (and ambiguous) ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.50! \| first editions
25 view cover	Love and Sexuality in Modern Arabic Literature more books like this by Roger Allen (Editor), Hilary Kilpatrick (Editor), Ed De Moor (Editor) add to wishlist In segregated, conservative societies with a repressive attitude to women, writing on the theme of love and sexuality are of particular interest. Among the plethora of studies on modern Arabic literature, this book is a major treatment of what has generally been a taboo subject. The scope covers the entire history of modern Arabic literature from ... see all copies from $4.98! new only from $4.98! \| first editions

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