Love in literature

This thesis explores Carson McCullers' concept of love in
her five novels: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections
in a Golden Eye, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, The Member of
the Wedding, and Clock Without Hands. It examines the influence
of her own age, the Chivalric Code of Love, and
the Platonic Doctrine of Love on her philosophy of love, as
expressed in each of her novels.

Esta tesis es el estudio del amor en la novela Cien
anos de soledad del autor Gabriel Garcia Marquez, estudio
compuesto de los siguientes capltulos: I) El autor y su
obra; II) Incidencias de la realidad socioeconomica, III)
Particularidades del tropico y de las costas latinoamericanas;
IV) El erotismo a la luz del psicoanalisis; V) Influencia
surrealista; VI) Las multiples caras del amor, y
los personajes; VII) La soledad y el amor.
Siguiendo la biografia del escritor en el primer capltulo,
el segundo y tercero enfatizan los factores ambientales
que influencian el amor. El cuarto y quinto analizan
el amor de acuerdo con las teorias psicoanaliticas y la modalidad
literaria del surrealismo. El sexto y septimo complementan
el tema y conducen a La conclusion de que el despliegue
de erotismo que revela la obra, es--contrario a lo
que parece--un mensaje moralizador de su autor.

Many critical studies of Colette, drawing heavily on psychoanalytic theory in order to explicate the biographical particulars of her life which are present in her works, have sought to brand the writer as feminine archetype of the free-spirited and inconstant libertine of the early twentieth century. But while such studies often note the general importance of the theme of love in Colette's works, they have tended to ignore both the larger literary metamorphosis which the theme of love undergoes and its metonymic links to the act of writing itself. Indeed, in Colette's works the letter and the mirror become privileged symbols through which the love felt by the narrator is channeled and ultimately displaced towards the act of writing and self-apprehension. Paradoxically, the act of writing is what enables Colette's narrator to enact her own liberation, it is also the act of writing in which she encounters isolation.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the problem posed by homosexuality in Dante's Commedia. I look at several topics and questions : A) What are the implications of homosexuality in regards to both justice in the polis and to divine justice in the next world? B) What are the poetics of queer variance? C) What are the oedipal issues surrounding the Dantean father-figures VIrgil, Brunetto Latini, and other males? D) What is the role of the pedagogic Eros in promoting a strong national bond and social ethos? E) Where does Dante situate "sodomites" (and, by extension, what role does desire play) in the schemata of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, and why is this important? All of these questions are interrelated and have a bearing on Dante's notion of the good society and divine justice.