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LOVE - BARBARA H ROSENWEIN GEBUNDEN

We make sense of love with fantasies  stories that shape feelings that are otherwise too
overwhelming  incoherent  and wayward to be tamed. For love is a complex  bewildering  and
ecstatic emotion covering a welter of different feelings and moral judgments. Drawing on poetry
fiction  letters  memoirs  and art  and with the aid of a rich array of illustrations 
historian Barbara H. Rosenwein explores five of our most enduring fantasies of love:
like-minded union  transcendent rapture  selfless giving  obsessive longing  and insatiable
desire. Each has had a long and tangled history with lasting effects on how we in the West
think about love today. Yet each leads to a different conclusion about what we should strive
for in our relationships. If only we could peel back the layers of love and discover its true
essence. But love doesn't work like that  it is constructed on the shards of experience  story
and feeling  shared over time  intertwined with other fantasies. By understanding the history
of how we have loved  Rosenwein argues  we may better navigate our own tumultuous experiences
and perhaps write our own scripts.

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