The Semiotics of Love
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Marcel Danesi
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The Semiotics of Love
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Palgrave Macmillan
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9783030181116
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The Semiotics of Love
brings together work on early symbolism, literary practices, and contemporary communication on the theme of romance and the idea of love to forge an understanding of the semiotic-cultural side of romance. Moving beyond psychological and neuroscientific scholarly analyses of love, Marcel Danesi works to interrogate the cultural constructions of love across societies. This book analyzes romantic love from the general perspective of semiotics-that is, from its more generic interpretive angle, rather than its more technical one. The specific analytical lens used is based on the notion that we convert our feeling structures into sign structures (words, symbols) and sign-based constructions (texts, rituals, etc.), which then allow us to reflect upon something cognitively, rather than just experience it physically and emotionally.
Marcel Danesi
is Professor of Semiotics and Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is renowned for his work in several areas of semiotic study, including pop culture and metaphor. He has been a guest on several broadcast outlets, including National Public Radio. Among his major recent publications are
The History of the Kiss!:
The Birth of Popular Culture
(Palgrave, 2013);
Murder in Plain English
, with Michael Arntfield (2017); and
Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things:
An Introduction to Semiotics, 3rd edition
(Palgrave, 2018). His work has been featured in the
New York Times
,
Toronto Star
, and
Psychology Today
, among other print publications. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of
Semiotica
, the leading journal in semiotics.
Preface
6
Contents
9
List of Figures
10
1: Conceptualizing Love
12
Prologue
12
Ancient Views
14
The Chivalric Code
18
The Science of Love
24
Opposition and Continuum Theory
29
Epilogue
34
2: The Body in Love
41
Prologue
41
The Face in Love
42
The Love Machine
48
Clothing and the Body in Love
53
Deconstructing Gender
59
Epilogue
61
3: The Language of Love
66
Prologue
66
Words of Love
68
Love Metaphors
70
Cultural Metaphors
75
Love Poetry
80
Love Mythologies
85
Epilogue
88
4: Love Stories
92
Prologue
92
Love Fiction
94
Fantasy and Reality
96
Star-Crossed Lovers, Love Gods, and Love Goddesses
100
Dangerous Love
105
Epilogue
112
5: Love Images
116
Prologue
116
Art for Love’s Sake
117
Images of Idyllic Love
122
Photographic Images
128
Pop Art Images
130
Epilogue
134
6: Love Symbols and Rituals
137
Prologue
137
Symbols of Love
139
XOXO
145
Love Rituals
147
Valentine’s Day
150
Epilogue
153
7: Love and Marriage
156
Prologue
156
Marriage, Love, and Evolution
157
Marriage in Contemporary Perspective
164
Prelude to Marriage
166
Robot Lovers
169
Epilogue
172
Index
176
