Syftet med uppsatsen är att analysera hur det moderna samhället i västvärlden ser på och pratar om sex och kärlek. Jag tittar på hur de kombineras i den så kallade kärleksideologin. Objektet för min analys är filmen Crazy, stupid, love från 2011. Jag använder exempel från filmen för att observera vissa kulturella aspekter som vi har i västvärlden kring kärlek och sex. Den teoretiska utgångspunkten för uppsatsen är det socialkonstruktivistiska perspektivet (Barlebo Wenneberg 2001) och modern filmteori (Andersson och Hedling 1995).   Resultatet visar bland annat att fiktiva verk, som filmen jag använder i uppsatsen, kan ta en plats i den kulturella diskursen. Filmen behåller legitimitet då den harmoniserar med många av västvärldens förhoppningar kring relationer och romantik. Kärleksidealet fortsätter att vara dominant idag trots att det uppstår konflikter mellan kärleksidealets mer traditionella konstruktion och det postmoderna samhällets andra normer. / The purpose of the thesis is to analyze how the modern west society looks upon and talks about sex and love. I am looking at how they are combined in the so called romantic ideology. The object of my analyzes is the movie Crazy, stupid love from 2011. I will observe certain cultural aspects of western society considering love and sex by using examples from the movie. My theoretical platform for the thesis will be the social constructive perspective (Barlebo Wenneberg 2001) an modern film theory (Andersson och Hedling 1995).   The result show amongst other things that works of fiction, like the movie I use in the thesis, can in fact take a position in the cultural discourse. The movie keeps its legitimacy by harmoniesing with many of the beliefs and hopes that we in the west have about relationships and romance. The romantic ideology keeps being dominant today even though there are conflicts between the romantic ideology’s more traditional construction and the post modern society’s other norms.

The unprecedented acts of brutality, persecution, and genocide perpetrated in the Second World War caused ruptures within language, creating a need for both individual and collective re-definitions of love, privacy, truth, and survival. In recent years, there has been a resurgence of Second World War fiction in both Canada and abroad, which suggests a need among contemporary authors to analyse and to understand retrospectively the way World War II has influenced current political and racial divisions. By looking specifically at the romantic relationships depicted in The Ash Garden, The English Patient, and The Walnut Tree, three Canadian World War II novels all written approximately fifty years after the war, this thesis not only examines the question of what is necessary for survival and how the public world of war either enables or inhibits individual survival, but also isolates how race, gender, and the public world influence the characters ability to endure in reciprocal love.

The unprecedented acts of brutality, persecution, and genocide perpetrated in the Second World War caused ruptures within language, creating a need for both individual and collective re-definitions of love, privacy, truth, and survival. In recent years, there has been a resurgence of Second World War fiction in both Canada and abroad, which suggests a need among contemporary authors to analyse and to understand retrospectively the way World War II has influenced current political and racial divisions. By looking specifically at the romantic relationships depicted in The Ash Garden, The English Patient, and The Walnut Tree, three Canadian World War II novels all written approximately fifty years after the war, this thesis not only examines the question of what is necessary for survival and how the public world of war either enables or inhibits individual survival, but also isolates how race, gender, and the public world influence the characters ability to endure in reciprocal love.

This study explores how middle-aged homeless persons in Atlanta, GA, who have harmful, self-identified addictive behaviors come to make positive material and psychological changes, while constrained by urban poverty and structural violence. This study is divided into two parts. In part one, I examine the interaction between individual, social, and material factors that promote recovery from addiction in a poor, urban context. I argue that recovery occurs through a process, initiated by a decision and realized through practice. Recovery is enhanced by a stable community and consistent material access. In part two, I examine how pain associated with homelessness can create a strong drive to intensify substance usage as a means to seek relief. I then describe how alienation, pain and corresponding addictive behaviors among homeless persons can be lessened through intentioned, empowering acts, which I call “symbolic love”. Finally, I offer policy recommendations based on my findings.

The theme of love in Malory¡¦s Le Morte Darthur has long been considered to be confusing and inconsistent. This thesis aims to analyze Malory¡¦s treatment of love in the two knights addressed as truest lovers: Launcelot and Tristram. Launcelot, as the central figure of the whole book, demonstrates well Malory¡¦s ideal about chivalry and about love, while the Tale of Tristram is neglected as an analogy which foreshadows Launcelot¡¦s adulterous relationship. I will survey these two knights¡¦ love stories with Malory¡¦s terms of ¡§virtuous love¡¨ and ¡§true lover,¡¨ and point out that although both of them are truest lover, their loves differ, so as to demonstrate the essence of love in Malory¡¦s work. Chapter one and two will focus on the love stories of Tristram and of Lancelot. Tristram, as a young knight, who first loves passionately, ¡§sone hote sone colde,¡¨ later establishes a stable relationship with la Beale Isode. The young couples, however fails to reconcile the conflict of love and moral and eventually die because of the jealousy husband, King Mark. On the contrary, Launcelot, as an elder knight, keeps faithful to Guinevere, his first and last love, refusing every suggestion of marriage with other worshipful ladies, truly repenting his sin after committing one. Chapter three will examine the definition of ¡§virtuous love¡¨ in May Passage, which reveal Malory¡¦s ideal of love, a long-lasting love, chaste and faithful, correspondent with Christian morality. Though having his ideal represented in the marriage love of Gareth, Malory understands well the possibility of imperfection and thus includes Launcelot as one form of true lover, who is unable to marry but maintains chaste and unites in heart, and Tristram as another form of true lover, whose ¡§love is free in himself.¡¨ This thesis will conclude that in his treatment of love Malory depicts various possibilities of human nature of love and points out different measures to achieve the ideal.

To enhance the living quality and tourism, Taiwan government encourages countries and cities to held more colorful activities of local festivals, which can draw a big crowd of foreign sightseers and prosper local economy. Taiwan is abundant in folk cultures; therefore, most local governments is actively promoting some place marketing programs rich in local characteristics, such as ¡§Love River Lantern Festival¡¨, ¡§Tungkong Tuna Cultural Festival¡¨, ¡§Machu Cultural Festival¡¨, ¡§The Yenshui Fireworks Festival¡¨, and ¡§Chamomile Blooming Season¡¨. The above cultural activities are well known not only islandwide but also worldwide. For the past few years, Kaohsiung City government has been deliberately shaping the city with ¡§water¡¨ and ¡§light¡¨. Love River is generally acknowledged as the most representative symbol of Kaohsiung. Nowadays, Kaohsiung has become one of the most beautiful cities in Taiwan and Love River should take most of the credits. Besides, this successful city marketing experience of Kaohsiung now is the legend in Taiwan. This study is based on two theories¡Ð¡§Place Marketing Theory¡¨ and ¡§City Image Theory¡¨. By reviewing lots of literature, summarize some factors, criteria, and alternatives that may be related to Love River environmental image. Then, through in-person expert interviews and questionnaire survey, apply AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) to sort out the priorities of the factors, the criteria, and the alternatives. The outcomes are as follows: 1.The priorities of the three factors on the second layer are¡Ð¡§Specific Architecture Clusters¡¨ goes first, ¡§Blue & Green Belt System¡¨ second, and ¡§ Traditional Cultural Festivals¡¨ last. 2.The priorities of the twelve criteria on the third layer are¡Ð ¡§River-Bank Facilities¡¨ goes first, ¡§Culture Heritage And Historic Sites¡¨ second, ¡§Riverfront Parks¡¨ third, ¡§River Channels¡¨ fourth, and ¡§Bridges¡¨ fifth. 3.The priorities of the three alternatives on the fourth layer are¡Ð ¡§The symbol of Kaohsiung Area¡¨ goes first, ¡§Promotion Of Local Tourism and Food & Drink Industry ¡¨ second, ¡§Love River Carnival¡¨ last.

Among Charlotte Bronte's four full-length novels, three are composed in the form of autobiography: Jane Eyre (1847), Villette (1853), and The Professor (published posthumously in 1857). The abundance of first-person narratives in Bronte's juvenile writings also highlights her marked preference for the first-person perspective in telling stories. In fact, due to the vital sense of truth inherent in first-person narration, Bronte is often identified by her readers as the heroines in her novels. This thesis aims to deal with the complex relationships of the authoress, her works, and the first-person narration. As a famous woman writer in the nineteenth century, Bronte satisfies her desire for self-expression by means of writing autobiographical fictions instead of composing her real autobiography. The first chapter examines the social and cultural contexts as well as Bronte's personal reasons behind such a choice. There is also the discussion of Bronte's presentation of the different characteristics of Victorian autobiographies by men and women in her novels. The second chapter investigates into Bronte's narrative strategy, and provides answers to her insistence on first-person narration while the omniscient narration is the mainstream of novel writing. The development of Bronte's narrative technique and her transition from the early masculine narrative to the later female discourse are also traced. The third chapter reviews the everlasting subject of Bronte's novels¡Xlove and marriage. With a careful textual study of Bronte's novels and a comprehensive examination of her biographical documents, I find that Bronte's fictional hero and heroines have faithfully reflected the authoress's real thoughts and true beliefs. As can be detected, to deliver the truth that she knows of and to influence her readers on issues that concern her most have always been Bronte's main preoccupations in respect of novel writing.

The common idea of love is a fusion of the individuals into one. The idea has permeated throughout society so that it has now been taken for granted. Such an idea of fusion of two individuals is actually harmful rather than helpful. In this thesis, I will show why the fusion model is not a prime model of love that one should follow, starting with Sartre. He is the paradigmatic example of the traditional model of love going wrong. By taking the fusion model to its final culmination, love is impossible or among other things sadomasochistic. Beauvoir reads Sartre's view as a bad-faith version of love. She inserts her view by giving an account of the €œwoman in love which is an example of a woman under Sartre'€™s interpretation of love. After showing why love under Sartre cannot be true, Beauvoir states that authentic love can only happen if the individuals are equal. That way, love can have grounds for culmination and fusion. Irigaray looks at the fusion model as debunked. She sees what Sartre and Beauvoir try to do but they are still assuming major things. Irigaray states that genuine love is based on the differences particularly sexual differences €”which Sartre and Beauvoir have failed to realize. By looking at Irigaray'€™s account of love, the traditional fusion model is debunked and love based on differences is applauded.

One shall not ignore the health, public sanitation and social problems due to excessive drinking. This is particularly serious in aboriginal people; the seriousness has caught attention of governments around the world. In Taiwan, we have policies asking aboriginal people to control drinking. However, the results are not satisfactory. The research focuses on the drinking control policy with good results in Namaxia Township in Kaohsiung County. The research evaluates the policy, Love of Maya, through quantified and qualitative studies in light of social psychology and public policies to understand the effective execution mechanism of Love of Maya¡XDrinking Control Program, in Namaxia Township in Kaohsiung County and meaning of public policy. To effectively correct and solve excessive drinking problem among aboriginal people has become an urgent issue now.

Dissertation--Göteborg, 2000. / Bibliogr. p. 189-195. Résumé en anglais et en allemand.