The reddest rose : romantic love from the ancient Greeks to reality tv / Liv Strömquist ; translated by Melissa Bowers.
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- 9781683964599
- Romantic love from the ancient Greeks to reality tv
- Rödaste rosen slår ut. English
- PN6790.S883 S75713 2022
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COMIC | TBS Barcelona Libre acceso | COM - STR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | B05266 |
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COM - BEN Secret invasion | COM - CAR X-Men : Secret invasion | COM - HIC Secret wars | COM - STR The reddest rose : romantic love from the ancient Greeks to reality tv | COM - VAN Green Lantern : rebirth | COM - AAR Avengers vs. X-Men | COM - AHM Miles Morales |
The deceptively simple through-line for Swedish media personality and activist Liv Strömquist's The Reddest Rose is the question: Why does Leonardo DiCaprio date an endless string of 20-something models? Her answer — in the form of this collection of well-researched, humorous comics essays — tracks how philosophers and artists, from the Ancient Greeks to Beyoncé, conceptualized romantic love. Strömquist's signature characters, drawn in a flat, blocky style, ask each other questions and offer sharp commentary as they guide readers throughout history and the change in societies' values, from showing love/loving to getting love/being loved. (Poet Hilda "H.D." Doolittle — who was so love-stricken by a man taking off his glasses that she believed they viewed dolphins together in another dimension — lends the book its title.) Lord Byron, Socrates, Byung-Chul Han, Ezra Pound, Slavoj Žižek, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Ariadne, and many others have cameos. For the first time in English, in The Reddest Rose, Strömquist wonders: in a rationalist, consumerist world, can romantic love survive? Provided by publisher.