The Semiotics of Love (Semiotics and Popular Culture)

__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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Conceptualizing Love (Marcel Danesi)....Pages 1-29 The Body in Love (Marcel Danesi)....Pages 31-55 The Language of Love (Marcel Danesi)....Pages 57-82 Love Stories (Marcel Danesi)....Pages 83-106 Love Images (Marcel Danesi)....Pages 107-127 Love Symbols and Rituals (Marcel Danesi)....Pages 129-147 Love and Marriage (Marcel Danesi)....Pages 149-168 Back Matter ....Pages 169-178