On Declaring Love

Author : Fred Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429663642

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On Declaring Love by Fred Parker Pdf

"What did she say? – Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does." This book explores the act of declaring love in works of literature written between the middle of the eighteenth century and the death of Jane Austen - and uncovers the uncertain boundaries of the self in the force-field of courtship. Declaring love is understood as the hazardous attempt to find public, social terms which can communicate personal feelings and bring intimacy into being. This was a period highly sensitive to the propriety and artificiality of public forms, and hence peculiarly alive to problems around the idea of saying what you feel, problems experienced especially though not exclusively by women. Through this historical lens the author considers the ways in which we may become entangled with one another through language, the limits to our operation as independent individuals, and whether in love you can only feel what you can tell. The first part of the book examines eighteenth-century attitudes towards the independent or disengaged self, performance culture, and the feasibility of sincerity, through readings of a wide range of different works. This provides the basis for a discussion of Austen's novels in the final two chapters, focused on the dynamics of courtship and the moment of proposal, and making much of the role of Austen's narrative voice in supporting the subjectivity of the one in love.

Author : Lexy Timms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Declaration of Love by Lexy Timms Pdf

It's easy to stand in the crowd, but it takes courage to stand alone… Ghandi Malcom O'Rourke didn't want to want the gift his father had given him, but Ivy Clearwater is not someone he can ignore—even if everything inside him warns him to let her go. Except Ivy has plans of her own and is ready to fight for Mack. Whatever the cost. He's been taken hostage and there is no one else to save him. She ignores the voice telling her to wait for backup and goes into the danger zone to pull him out. She must fight for her life and the live of her captor turned lover. Lives are lost and Ivy is left dealing with the aftermath of what she had to do to save Mack's life. She retreats home, vowing to nurse Mack back to health. But her lover has other ideas. Mack's ready to settle the score with his father, no matter the cost. SIN will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay. SIN SERIES: Book 1 – Payment for Sin Book 2 – Atonement Within Book 3 – Declaration of Love Search Terms: sexy hero, hot and steamy, romance, ageless romance, Scottish romance, outlander, FICTION / Romance / Contemporary FICTION / Romance / New Adult FICTION / Romance / Romantic Comedy F, sexy, sport romance, hired wife, fake girlfriend, happily ever after, sweet love story, bully romance academy romance, bully romance, coming of age romance, bully romance dark romance, bully romance high school, bully romance college, bully romance reverse harem, new adult romance, contemporary romance

Author : Lateef H. McLeod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 097264833X

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A Declaration of a Body of Love Poetry by Lateef H. McLeod Pdf

This is my first published book that contains my most sacred thoughts in poetic form.

Author : Sara Eckel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781101606438

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It's Not You by Sara Eckel Pdf

“Why am I still single?” If you’re single and searching, there’s no end to other people’s explanations, excuses, and criticism explaining why you haven’t found a partner: “You’re too picky. Just find a good-enough guy and you’ll be fine.” “You’re too desperate. If men think you need them, they’ll run scared.” “You’re too independent. Smart, ambitious women always have a harder time finding mates.” “You have low self-esteem. You can’t love someone else until you’ve learned to love yourself.” “You’re too needy. You can’t be happy in a relationship until you’ve learned to be happy on your own.” Based on one of the most popular Modern Love columns of the last decade, Sara Eckel’s It’s Not You challenges these myths, encouraging singletons to stop picking apart their personalities and to start tapping into their own wisdom about who and what is right for them. Supported by the latest psychological and sociological research, as well as interviews with people who have experienced longtime singledom, Eckel creates a strong and empowering argument to understand and accept that there’s no one reason why you’re single—you just are.

Author : Khushwant Singh,Sharda Kaushik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Love poetry, English
ISBN : 067087521X

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Declaring Love in Four Languages by Khushwant Singh,Sharda Kaushik Pdf

Taken Together The Poems In This Collection Constitute An Uninhibited Celebration Of The Most Powerful Emotion Known To Man.

Author : Aziz Ansari,Eric Klinenberg
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780698179967

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Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari,Eric Klinenberg Pdf

The #1 New York Times Bestseller “An engaging look at the often head-scratching, frequently infuriating mating behaviors that shape our love lives.” —Refinery 29 A hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern romance from Aziz Ansari, the star of Master of None and one of this generation’s sharpest comedic voices At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share a deep connection. This seems standard now, but it’s wildly different from what people did even just decades ago. Single people today have more romantic options than at any point in human history. With technology, our abilities to connect with and sort through these options are staggering. So why are so many people frustrated? Some of our problems are unique to our time. “Why did this guy just text me an emoji of a pizza?” “Should I go out with this girl even though she listed Combos as one of her favorite snack foods? Combos?!” “My girlfriend just got a message from some dude named Nathan. Who’s Nathan? Did he just send her a photo of his penis? Should I check just to be sure?” But the transformation of our romantic lives can’t be explained by technology alone. In a short period of time, the whole culture of finding love has changed dramatically. A few decades ago, people would find a decent person who lived in their neighborhood. Their families would meet and, after deciding neither party seemed like a murderer, they would get married and soon have a kid, all by the time they were twenty-four. Today, people marry later than ever and spend years of their lives on a quest to find the perfect person, a soul mate. For years, Aziz Ansari has been aiming his comic insight at modern romance, but for Modern Romance, the book, he decided he needed to take things to another level. He teamed up with NYU sociologist Eric Klinenberg and designed a massive research project, including hundreds of interviews and focus groups conducted everywhere from Tokyo to Buenos Aires to Wichita. They analyzed behavioral data and surveys and created their own online research forum on Reddit, which drew thousands of messages. They enlisted the world’s leading social scientists, including Andrew Cherlin, Eli Finkel, Helen Fisher, Sheena Iyengar, Barry Schwartz, Sherry Turkle, and Robb Willer. The result is unlike any social science or humor book we’ve seen before. In Modern Romance, Ansari combines his irreverent humor with cutting-edge social science to give us an unforgettable tour of our new romantic world.

Author : Leslie Sharon Geuze
Publisher : Leslie Sharon Geuze
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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My declaration of love by Leslie Sharon Geuze Pdf

My Declaration of Love is a book that brings us back to the foundations of building a genuine relationship with God. A relationship is a two-way street and here Leslie shares the start of her journey of faith, the challenges she faced and how God changed her life and how this can be your portion as well. A significant part of the book is Dedicated to Worship, God's words and thoughts over mankind.

Author : Paul S. Bere
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781453505458

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The Chronicles of Benevolent Affection: A Declaration of Love, Tribulations and Hope by Paul S. Bere Pdf

This is a master piece love story well told in poetic rhythm. She torments his love for her. It is an absorbing beautifully and tenderly mesmerizing, heart-warming narrative. The poems portray truly gripping testimonies, told in lean and fantasy prose. The magnificent writing fills you with pure heart felt love which give a compelling picture of the writer's character. It's also funny and flamboyant and makes it hard to put it down because of its captivating romanticism. The poems draw your feelings and engage your mind with the writer which shows the writer's affluence, imaginary and adventurous capricious writing skills. This is a very romantic book. A must read for all woman

Author : Christina Lauren
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501128028

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Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren Pdf

After a decade apart, childhood sweethearts reconnect by chance in New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren’s touching, romantic novel Love and Other Words…how many words will it take for them to figure out where it all went wrong? The story of the heart can never be unwritten. Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new pediatrics resident, plan her wedding to an older, financially secure man, keep her head down and heart tucked away. But when she runs into Elliot Petropoulos—the first and only love of her life—the careful bubble she’s constructed begins to dissolve. Once upon a time, Elliot was Macy’s entire world—growing from her gangly bookish friend into the man who coaxed her heart open again after the loss of her mother...only to break it on the very night he declared his love for her. Told in alternating timelines between Then and Now, teenage Elliot and Macy grow from friends to much more—spending weekends and lazy summers together in a house outside of San Francisco devouring books, sharing favorite words, and talking through their growing pains and triumphs. As adults, they have become strangers to one another until their chance reunion. Although their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened that night so many years ago, Elliot will come to understand the truth behind Macy’s decade-long silence, and will have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an all-consuming love.

Author : Eva Illouz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509550265

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The End of Love by Eva Illouz Pdf

Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people’s lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us, the feverish waiting for a phone call or an email, the thrill that runs down our spine at the mere thought of him or her. Yet, a culture that has so much to say about love is virtually silent on the no less mysterious moments when we avoid falling in love, where we fall out of love, when the one who kept us awake at night now leaves us indifferent, or when we hurry away from those who excited us a few months or even a few hours before. In The End of Love, Eva Illouz documents the multifarious ways in which relationships end. She argues that if modern love was once marked by the freedom to enter sexual and emotional bonds according to one’s will and choice, contemporary love has now become characterized by practices of non-choice, the freedom to withdraw from relationships. Illouz dubs this process by which relationships fade, evaporate, dissolve, and break down “unloving.” While sociology has classically focused on the formation of social bonds, The End of Love makes a powerful case for studying why and how social bonds collapse and dissolve. Particularly striking is the role that capitalism plays in practices of non-choice and “unloving.” The unmaking of social bonds, she argues, is connected to contemporary capitalism which is characterized by practices of non-commitment and non-choice, practices that enable the quick withdrawal from a transaction and the quick realignment of prices and the breaking of loyalties. Unloving and non-choice have in turn a profound impact on society and economics as they explain why people may be having fewer children, increasingly living alone, and having less sex. The End of Love presents a profound and original analysis of the effects of capitalism and consumer culture on personal relationships and of what the dissolution of personal relationships means for capitalism.

Author : Ryan Holiday,Stephen Hanselman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780735211742

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The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday,Stephen Hanselman Pdf

From the team that brought you The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, a daily devotional of Stoic meditations—an instant Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller. Why have history's greatest minds—from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today's top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities—embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a classroom exercise. The Daily Stoic offers 366 days of Stoic insights and exercises, featuring all-new translations from the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the playwright Seneca, or slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, as well as lesser-known luminaries like Zeno, Cleanthes, and Musonius Rufus. Every day of the year you'll find one of their pithy, powerful quotations, as well as historical anecdotes, provocative commentary, and a helpful glossary of Greek terms. By following these teachings over the course of a year (and, indeed, for years to come) you'll find the serenity, self-knowledge, and resilience you need to live well.

Author : Charles Lecocq
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022900967

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Les Prés St. Gervais, comic opera in 3 acts ... Translated into English by R. Reece. [Vocal score.] by Charles Lecocq Pdf

Author : Raymond Van Zleer
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781425193195

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The Antichrist Whom Christ Declared by Raymond Van Zleer Pdf

THE ANTICHRIST WHOM CHRIST DECLARED A Different Perspective Unlike other the antichrist is exposs this book uses the words, teachings, and actions of Jesus Christ to document whom He proclaimed the antichrist to be. The antichrist whom Jesus Christ actually actively opposed in word and deed. It confirms this reality using Biblical Scripture and the events of history, even as it focuses upon the present to reveal the antichrist and his wide-ranging scope of satanic actions in todays world here and now. TOPICS INCLUDE How Christianity and by inference, other religions too, unknowingly promote the vile evils seen in todays world. How Belief, Faith, and the Holy Bible, are cunningly used to justify and support evil, often utilizing the unwitting, and sometimes willing support of believers and the church. The satanic rationales behind terrorism, environmental destruction and toxic pollution, as well as the ongoing periodic economic crisis, and those who profit from these deliberate satanic deeds. How the media justifies and promotes evil, including by so-called religious values that brings evil into being, then perpetuates it. Non-Christian readers will find this book meaningful and useful. Like Christians, they can use it to identify and counter those who accidentally or deliberately use Jesus Christ and the Holy Bible to abuse religion and promote evils satanic agenda.

Author : Bernadette Rossetti-Shustak
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545385985

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I Love You Through and Through by Bernadette Rossetti-Shustak Pdf

A rhyming story of unconditional love with adorable illustrations of a toddler and a teddy bear who declare "I love you through and through!" I love your hair and eyes,Your giggles and cries...A toddler and his teddy bear illustrate a young child's happy side, sad side, silly side, mad side, and more!Babies and toddlers will feel loved all over when they hear this declaration of adoration and affection. A perfect first book for toddlers with sturdy cardstock pages and a padded cover with rounded corners for safe handling by little ones.

Author : Spencer Traver
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781512730951

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21 Promises by Spencer Traver Pdf

21 Promises combines the clarity of the gospel and the authenticity of life stories to accurately reveal the abiding promises of God displayed in our lives. In some cases, we fail to recognize Gods presence as we endure present times. However, the beauty of the gospel comes to a brief fruition when we step away from the window and observe Gods sustaining work arising in each of our days. The purpose of focusing on the promises of God found in Scripture originates from a lack of Biblical understanding in our generation. As young adults in a liberal society, the value of gathering an accurate understanding of Gods promises remains crucially important. Friends, family, and professors might teach or share false ideas about God, prompting young adults to doubt his existence, his goodness, and his authority. With the help of Scripture, 21 Promises teaches adults, young and old, to understand with their minds and believe with their hearts in the unfailing promises of God. Likewise, the creative narrative of this book allows the reader to witness stories from a first-person perspective before reflecting on Gods promises as a third-person party. In essence, the hope of this book focuses on the readers observation of the promises of God displayed in Scripture and real life events, regardless of their history and knowledge of God. Without Gods promises, we live confused lives; yet, he makes himself present and available through these divine revelations.