Romantic Futures

Author : Evy Varsamopoulou
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003808695

Get Book

Romantic Futures by Evy Varsamopoulou Pdf

Romantic Futures is a collection which explores the significance of futurity in British Romanticism from a comparative perspective in three defining manifestations: the future as conscious legacy, by which is meant both influences or continuities and the (anticipations of) impact on the future; the future as revealed by prophecy, whether via religious figures or superstitions; and a meditation on the temporality of the future, or the future as a concept. The book brings together a wide range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives: from utopian studies, history, religion, and cultural theory to future studies, neuroscience, video games, and art history. Aiming to increase and diversify current critical engagement and highlight the contemporary relevance of the Romantics’ multivalent preoccupation with the future, this collection renews the dialogue between Romanticism and our critical relation to its contemporaneity, especially as it speaks to current understandings of the future in the sciences, arts, and humanities.

Author : Varda Konstam
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190639785

Get Book

The Romantic Lives of Emerging Adults by Varda Konstam Pdf

The romantic lives of emerging adults are often baffling and contradictory. While they prize committed and authentic relationships, they appear to be reluctant participants. They prefer to foster ambiguity in their romantic relationships, even as they value honesty and clarity. There is, at once, a valuing of long-term as well as a decentering of romantic relationships. Although our current understanding is incomplete, this text grapples with these perplexing questions. In attempting to understand emerging adults and their romantic lives, researchers must consider the challenging economic conditions in which today's emerging adults find themselves. With an emphasis on commitment and sacrifice and their centrality to one's readiness for a long-term relationship, this book reviews the main milestones in transitioning from an "I" identity to a "we" identity and discusses the concepts of choice and risk. Further, the book examines structures such as asymmetrically committed relationships, cohabitation, and marriage through the lens of commitment, risk, and risk avoidance. Probing extensively into the romantic lives of emerging adults -- their attitudes, values and expectations -- this text examines some of the developmental and contextual realities against which romantic attachment must be viewed. Critical topics such as casual and sexual experiences and relationships, integration of work and love, breakups, marriage, going solo, and social media and its influences are considered. The commonality and the individuality of the emerging adults presented throughout this text contribute to a rich understanding of emerging adults and how they live and love.

Author : Jennifer M. Gidley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191054242

Get Book

The Future: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer M. Gidley Pdf

From the beginning of time, humans have been driven by both a fear of the unknown and a curiosity to know. We have always yearned to know what lies ahead, whether threat or safety, scarcity or abundance. Throughout human history, our forebears tried to create certainty in the unknown, by seeking to influence outcomes with sacrifices to gods, preparing for the unexpected with advice from oracles, and by reading the stars through astrology. As scientific methods improve and computer technology develops we become ever more confident of our capacity to predict and quantify the future by accumulating and interpreting patterns form the past, yet the truth is there is still no certainty to be had. In this Very Short Introduction Jennifer Gidley considers some of our most burning questions: What is "the future "?; Is the future a time yet to come?; Or is it a utopian place?; Does the future have a history?; Is there only one future or are there many possible futures? She asks if the future can ever be truly predicted or if we create our own futures - both hoped for and feared - by our thoughts, feelings, and actions, and concludes by analysing how we can learn to study the future. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : L. L. Wynn,Angel M. Foster
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826504340

Get Book

Sex in the Middle East and North Africa by L. L. Wynn,Angel M. Foster Pdf

Sex in the Middle East and North Africa examines the sexual practices, politics, and complexities of the modern Arab world. Short chapters feature a variety of experts in anthropology, sociology, health science, and cultural studies. Many of the chapters are based on original ethnographic and interview work with subjects involved in these practices and include their voices. The book is organized into three sections: Single and Dating, Engaged and Married, and It's Complicated. The allusion to categories of relationship status on social media is at once a nod to the compulsion to categorize, recognition of the many ways that categorization is rarely straightforward, and acknowledgment that much of the intimate lives described by the contributors is mediated by online technologies.

Author : John C. Woodcock
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781475967654

Get Book

Manifesting Possible Futures by John C. Woodcock Pdf

If the present alienation of mind from nature, i.e., the Cartesian reality principle, is to be overcome, there surely must be a climate of extreme depression amounting in many quarters to despair One way or another there is an opportunity here for a good writer who should fill out in terms of concrete events and experiences the issues If a society is really faced with startling changes and fairly imminent ones (and there is a good deal of evidence that ours is) it cannot be amiss for a few people here and there to be peering ahead, however inadequately, by way of preparation for them. Owen Barfield: The Coming Trauma of Materialism

Author : Evy Varsamopoulou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 1032341335

Get Book

Romantic Futures by Evy Varsamopoulou Pdf

"Romantic Futures is a collection which explores the significance of futurity in British Romanticism from a comparative perspective in three defining manifestations: the future as conscious legacy, by which is meant both influences or continuities and the (anticipations of) impact on the future; the future as revealed by prophecy, whether via religious figures or superstitions; and, a meditation on the temporality of the future, or the future as a concept. The book brings together a wide range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives: from utopian studies, history, religion and cultural theory to future studies, neuroscience, video games and art history. Aiming to increase and diversify current critical engagement and highlight the contemporary relevance of the Romantics' multivalent preoccupation with the future, this collection renews the dialogue between Romanticism and our critical relation to its contemporaneity, especially as it speaks to current understandings of the future in the sciences, arts and humanities"--

Author : Sally Hines,Yvette Taylor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137002785

Get Book

Sexualities: Past Reflections, Future Directions by Sally Hines,Yvette Taylor Pdf

This collection examines recent theoretical and methodological debates, shifts in law and policy, and social and cultural changes around sexuality. It sets out new ways of conceptualizing and researching sexuality and explores persistently marginalised and re-traditionalised sexual practices, subjectivities and identities.

Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015022046729

Get Book

The art-work of the future by Richard Wagner Pdf

Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Composers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042949037

Get Book

Richard Wagner's Prose Works: The art-work of the future by Richard Wagner Pdf

Author : Elisabeth Brewer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780859913935

Get Book

T.H. White's The Once and Future King by Elisabeth Brewer Pdf

Malory's chivalric virtues are rejected in favour of White's own 20th-century values; the love affair of Lancelot and Guenever is interpreted in terms of modern psychology.

Author : Jonathan Paul Marshall,Linda H. Connor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317690825

Get Book

Environmental Change and the World's Futures by Jonathan Paul Marshall,Linda H. Connor Pdf

Climate change and ecological instability have the potential to disrupt human societies and their futures. Cultural, social and ethical life in all societies is directed towards a future that can never be observed, and never be directly acted upon, and yet is always interacting with us. Thinking and acting towards the future involves efforts of imagination that are linked to our sense of being in the world and the ecological pressures we experience. The three key ideas of this book – ecologies, ontologies and mythologies – help us understand the ways people in many different societies attempt to predict and shape their futures. Each chapter places a different emphasis on the linked domains of environmental change, embodied experience, myth and fantasy, politics, technology and intellectual reflection, in relation to imagined futures. The diverse geographic scope of the chapters includes rural Nepal, the islands of the Pacific Ocean, Sweden, coastal Scotland, North America, and remote, rural and urban Australia. This book will appeal to researchers and students in anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, cultural studies, psychology and politics.

Author : George Manville Fenn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555086255

Get Book

One maid's mischief by George Manville Fenn Pdf

Author : Laurie Essig
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520300491

Get Book

Love, Inc. by Laurie Essig Pdf

The notion of “happily ever after” has been ingrained in many of us since childhood—meet someone, date, have the big white wedding, and enjoy your well-deserved future. But why do we buy into this idea? Is love really all we need? Author Laurie Essig invites us to flip this concept of romance on its head and see it for what it really is—an ideology that we desperately cling to as a way to cope with the fact that we believe we cannot control or affect the societal, economic, and political structures around us. From climate change to nuclear war, white nationalism to the worship of wealth and conspicuous consumption—as the future becomes seemingly less secure, Americans turn away from the public sphere and find shelter in the private. Essig argues that when we do this, we allow romance to blind us to the real work that needs to be done—building global movements that inspire a change in government policies to address economic and social inequality.

Author : George Edgar Slusser,Paul Kent Alkon,Roger Gaillard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Utopias
ISBN : UOM:39015042985930

Get Book

Transformations of Utopia by George Edgar Slusser,Paul Kent Alkon,Roger Gaillard Pdf

This collection of essays from a conference to celebrate Switzerland's 700th birthday on utopian literature, reassess the ideas of utopia, its history and role in today's world The resulting essays, in English and French re-examine both traditional and new manifestations of utopian thought.

Author : Dr. Sue Johnson
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780316251082

Get Book

Love Sense by Dr. Sue Johnson Pdf

The bestselling author of Hold Me Tight presents a revolutionary new understanding of why and how we love, based on cutting-edge research. Every day, we hear of relationships failing and questions of whether humans are meant to be monogamous. Love Sense presents new scientific evidence that tells us that humans are meant to mate for life. Dr. Johnson explains that romantic love is an attachment bond, just like that between mother and child, and shows us how to develop our "love sense" -- our ability to develop long-lasting relationships. Love is not the least bit illogical or random, but actually an ordered and wise recipe for survival. Love Sense covers the three stages of a relationship and how to best weather them; the intelligence of emotions and the logic of love; the physical and psychological benefits of secure love; and much more. Based on groundbreaking research, Love Sense will change the way we think about love.