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The ArtsMay 2023Modern European cinema and love
by Richard Rushton
Modern European cinema and love examines nine European directors whose films contain stories about romantic love and marriage. The directors are Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, Alain Resnais, Michelangelo Antonioni, Agnès Varda, François Truffaut, Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard and Éric Rohmer. The book approaches questions of love and marriage from a philosophical perspective, applying the ideas of authors such as Stanley Cavell, Leo Bersani, Luce Irigaray and Alain Badiou, while also tracing key concepts from Freudian psychoanalysis. Each of the filmmakers engages deeply with notions of modern love and marriage, often in positive ways, but also in ways that question the institutions of love, marriage and the 'couple'.
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Idealistic Romance
by Wang Yangling
This book is a clearly depiction of the ten-year history of urban women's growth from 23 to 33 years old, a record of friendship and love between a rich girl and an orphan, and a profound analysis of contemporary people's emotion on marriage, divorce and remarriage. How much are we willing to pay for the pursuit of love and ideals? Ease and mediocrity, hard work and excellence, everyone gains and loses. The final result of growth is sympathy and reconciliation between people and others and themselves...
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September 2015Le train des enfants
by Caldor, Yves
“Exile is always carried deep within. Sometimes we think we read it in other people’s eyes. It is not always racism or hatred that we can detect there, but an indefinable glow, which seems to whisper to us softly: “No, you are not from here; you look nice like that, and we too want to appear nice, polite; we pretend nothing, but deep down, even if we accept you, you’re not from here.I don’t define myself as an immigrant; I’m here and all my there. An obsession: ‘double’ roots, mine, those of others; how to speak of ‘that’? How to write about ‘that’? So is it so difficult? Yes ... I am trying; define oneself, constantly redefine oneself; all my roots, my strata; what ploys to not lose any!”Born in Budapest in 1951, from a Hungarian father and a French mother, Yves CALDOR (Yves Káldor) lived his early childhood – bilingual – in Hungary and, from 1956, after the Soviet intervention against the insurgency in Budapest, in France. As a teenager, following the separation of his parents and the remarriage of his mother, he discovered Belgium (Hainaut, then Brussels where he lived for several years) before moving back to Wallonia; he readily asserts that he feels Belgian, Brussels and Walloon, while keeping his Magyar and French roots alive within him.
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March 2018The Profession of Widowhood: Widows, Pastoral Care, and Medieval Models of Holiness
Widows, Pastoral Care, and Medieval Models of Holiness
by Katherine Clark Walter
The Profession of Widowhood explores how the idea of ‘true’ widowhood was central to pre-modern ideas concerning marriage and of female identity more generally. The medieval figure of the Christian vere vidua or “good” widow evolved from and reinforced ancient social and religious sensibilities of chastity, loyalty and grief as gendered ‘work.’ The ideal widow was a virtuous woman who mourned her dead husband in chastity, solitude, and most importantly, in perpetuity, marking her as “a widow indeed” (1 Tim 5:5). The widow who failed to display adequate grief fulfilled the stereotype of the ‘merry widow’ who forgot her departed spouse and abused her sexual and social freedom. Stereotypes of widows ‘good’ and ‘bad’ served highly-charged ideological functions in pre-modern culture, and have remained durable even in modern times, even as Western secular society now focuses more on a woman’s recovery from grief and possible re-coupling than the expectation that she remain forever widowed. The widow represented not only the powerful bond created by love and marriage, but also embodied the conventions of grief that ordered the response when those bonds were broken by premature death. This notion of the widow as both a passive memorial to her husband and as an active ‘rememberer’ was rooted in ancient traditions, and appropriated by early Christian and medieval authors who used “good” widowhood to describe the varieties of female celibacy and to define the social and gender order. A tradition of widowhood characterized by chastity, solitude, and permanent bereavement affirmed both the sexual mores and political agenda of the medieval Church. Medieval widows—both holy women recognized as saints and ‘ordinary women’ in medieval daily life—recognized this tradition of professed chastity in widowhood not only as a valuable strategy for avoiding remarriage and protecting their independence, but as a state with inherent dignity that afforded opportunities for spiritual development in this world and eternal merit in the next.
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Christian life & practice2020Marriage, Thistles and Flowers –Living the Reality of a Healthy Marriage
by Barnie & Grace Achoki
Marriage, Thistles & Flowers provides answers to the most commonly asked questions about marriage in the 21st century. Barnie and Grace Achoki provide answers and insight on hundreds of questions that have been asked by writers to their Newspaper’s Relationships Column over the last several years. Researchers will find frank and insightful answers to questions about: • Pitfalls to avoid in marriage, • Financial constraints, • Infidelity, • Romance, • Single Parenthood, • Remarriage and, conflict resolution.
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August 2020Second Chance
by Dr. Kavita Bhatnagar
She was only 26, pretty, intelligent, earning well and – divorced. Ragini had been on cloud nine once her marriage was fixed and certain that she was going to get all the love she had dreamed of – her marriage would be perfect and she would really live happily ever after. But soon the marriage turned abusive and Ragini walked out of the bitter, hurtful existence – shaken, but determined to create anew life for herself. This is the story of Ragini’s quest for love and companionship. Her efforts make her interact with different suitors and take her on a roller coaster emotional ride. Ragini’s travails to marryagain show myriad hues where deceit and pretence come face to- face with hope and aspiration. Will life give her a second chance?
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2021Reproductive Politics and the Makings of Modern India
by Mytheli Sreenivas
In modern India, reforming individual reproduction, through changing marriage practices or the introduction of birth control, became a means to shape the life of the population as a whole. Mytheli Sreenivas traces moments when social actors questioned the wide-ranging, complex, and sometimes contradictory politics of reproduction, asking how practices associated with biological reproduction, and the social meanings attached to these practices, became the target of public debate and contestation. She reveals the intimate imbrication of population concerns with reproductive politics and the economy, and suggests that the ideologies and institutions that encouraged the government to intervene in the reproductive lives of its subjects were not mid-twentieth-century inventions, but arose from concerns that first took shape in colonial India. Exploring the wide implications of these policies and programs, Sreenivas challenges some of the fundamental assumptions that underpin reproductive politics today, in India and transnationally.
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2020Savage West
The Life and Fiction of Thomas Savage
by O. Alan Weltzien
Thomas Savage (1915--2003) was one of the intermountain West's best novelists. His thirteen novels received high critical praise, yet he remained largely unknown by readers. Although Savage spent much of his later life in the Northeast, his formative years were spent in southwestern Montana, where the mountain West and his ranching family formed the setting for much of his work. O. Alan Weltzien's insightful and detailed literary biography chronicles the life and work of this neglected but deeply talented novelist. Savage, a closeted gay family man, was both an outsider and an insider, navigating an intense conflict between his sexual identity and the claustrophobic social restraints of the rural West. Unlike many other Western writers, Savage avoided the formula westerns-- so popular in his time-- and offered instead a realistic, often subversive version of the region. His novels tell a hard, harsh story about dysfunctional families, loneliness, and stifling provincialism in the small towns and ranches of the northern Rockies, and his minority interpretation of the West provides a unique vision and caustic counternarrative contrary to the triumphant settler-colonialism themes that have shaped most Western literature. Savage West seeks to claim Thomas Savage's well-deserved position in American literature and to reintroduce twenty-first-century readers to a major Montana writer.
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Historical fiction
A Lantern at Noonday
by Roger Butters
Ancient Rome, during the troubled joint reign of the Emperor Caracalla and his hated brother Geta. The authorities are puzzled by a series of prostitute murders in the notorious Subura district. Quintus Celer, a chariot-racing trainer whose own racing career was cut short by injury, is instructed to investigate by the young aristocrat Gaius Numerianus, anxious to clear his name after being unjustly suspected of the murder of his wife, one of the victims. Other leading characters, most of whom appeared in the prequel The Noblest Roman, are Gaius’s feisty sister Lucilia and her latest husband, the enigmatic Titus Sinopean, the Emperor’s trusty advisor and greatest friend Marcus Granua, and Granua’s cousin, the notorious tavern brawler and tribade Flavia Rufina. Quintus’s enquiries lead him not only deep into the seedy Roman underworld, but the even more lethal environment of imperial power politics, before the surprising truth is revealed. An epic historical novel, set in Rome 211-212 AD, during the reign of the Emperor Caracalla. Sequel to The Noblest Roman, by Roger Butters, published by Janus Publishing Company Limited, London 2009. Approximately 121,000 words.
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Fantasy & magical realism (Children's/YA)June 2020Queen of Coin and Whispers
A kingdom of secrets and a game of lies
by Helen Corcoran
Faced with dangerous plots and hidden enemies, can Lia and Xania learn to rely on each other, as they discover that all is not fair in love and treason?
