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Intimacy (Psychology) --- Couples --- Intimité --- Psychological aspects

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The Possibility of Love is an exploration of a concept close to the human heart. Grounded in the ordinary, everyday experiences of human living, the book provides an exploration of the diverse obstacles to the experience of love, the consequences of love's absence, and the unquenchable desire for love which propels, influences and ultimately motivates much of human behaviour. The Possibility of Love poses the question: is love actually possible between human beings, or is it an ideal, a fa...

Love. --- Affection --- Emotions --- First loves --- Friendship --- Intimacy (Psychology)

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Ranging from Plato to writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Proust, Forster, Beckett, Huxley, Lawrence, and Larkin, Reeve brings the vast resources of Western literature and philosophy to bear on the question of love. Looking at love in light of the classical world and Christianity, and in its complex relationship with pornography, violence, sadomasochism, fantasy, sentimentality, and jealousy, Reeve invites us to think more broadly about love, and to find the confusions that inevitably result to be creative rather than disturbing.

Love. --- Life. --- Life --- Affection --- Emotions --- First loves --- Friendship --- Intimacy (Psychology) --- Philosophy

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Sexual abstinence --- Intimacy (Psychology) --- Christian ethics. --- Sexual ethics. --- Continence --- Intimité --- Morale chrétienne --- Morale sexuelle --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme

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When a poet addresses a living person--whether friend or enemy, lover or sister--we recognize the expression of intimacy. But what impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible listeners, seeking an ideal intimacy--George Herbert with God, Walt Whitman with a reader in the future, John Ashbery with the Renaissance painter Francesco Parmigianino? In Invisible Listeners, Helen Vendler argues that such poets must invent the language that will enact, on the page, an intimacy they lack in life. Through brilliantly insightful and gracefully written readings of these three great poets over three different centuries, Vendler maps out their relationships with their chosen listeners. For his part, Herbert revises the usual "vertical" address to God in favor of a "horizontal" one-addressing God as a friend. Whitman hovers in a sometimes erotic, sometimes quasi-religious language in conceiving the democratic camerado, who will, following Whitman's example, find his true self. And yet the camerado will be replaced, in Whitman's verse, by the ultimate invisible listener, Death. Ashbery, seeking a fellow artist who believes that art always distorts what it represents, finds he must travel to the remote past. In tones both tender and skeptical he addresses Parmigianino, whose extraordinary self-portrait in a convex mirror furnishes the poet with both a theory and a precedent for his own inventions. By creating the forms and speech of ideal intimacy, these poets set forth the possibility of a more complete and satisfactory human interchange--an ethics of relation that is uncoerced, understanding, and free.

American poetry --- Authors and readers --- God in literature. --- Intimacy (Psychology) in literature. --- Lyric poetry --- Reader-response criticism. --- History and criticism. --- Whitman, Walt, --- Herbert, George, --- Ashbery, John --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Ashbery, John, --- Reader-oriented criticism --- Reception aesthetics --- Readers and authors --- Harbert, George, --- Criticism --- Reading --- Authorship