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Love, perfection, and egotism in Janette Oke's fictions
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Abstract Love is distinguished as a feeling that begins from the lover's sight to the beloved. In societies in the past, lovers preferred to keep their relationships with the beloved in secret. It means that keeping love as a secret had been appropriate in societies. In present people's view, it is a big pro... view more
Love is distinguished as a feeling that begins from the lover's sight to the beloved. In societies in the past, lovers preferred to keep their relationships with the beloved in secret. It means that keeping love as a secret had been appropriate in societies. In present people's view, it is a big problem which cannot be answered with any reason, but religion. Today's lovers are not forced with such problem and they overtly speak about their beloveds. In Janette Oke's fictions, the lovers openly speak about their idiosyncratic behaviors. She shows perfect love in her novels that is against egotism which this paper tries to survey it.... view less
Keywords
literature; novel; love; egoism; behavior
Classification
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Social Psychology
Free Keywords
Perfektion; Leidenschaft
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Page/Pages
p. 139-142
Journal
International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (2015) 51
ISSN
2300-2697
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed