The Semiotics of Love

• Main Author: Danesi, Marcel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Semiotics and Popular Culture
• Subjects: Culture-Study and teaching.; Popular Culture.; Communication.; Semiotics.; Popular Science in Cultural and Media Studies.; Popular Culture .; Media and Communication.

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 lov...

Table of Contents:

• 1. XOXO: The Religious Origins of Romantic Symbols
• 2. The Language of Love
• 3. Love and Sex: Are the Two Connected?
• 4. Writing Love: The Literature of Romance
• 5. Love in Images
• 6. Love Rituals
• 7. Love and Marriage: Do They Go Together Lie a Horse and Carriage?