La Donna del Lago de Rossini : première entrée en scène de Walter Scott dans l’opéra italien by Liliane Lascoux

“…The composer’s librettist, Andrea Leone Tottola, bases his dramatisation on a French translation of the poem, simplifies and rewrites the text, as is often customary when adapting literature for the stage, thus modifying characters and highlighting the poem’s love interest. If the libretto is unfaithful to the letter of the source, the music pays homage to its spirit and conveys the heroic and legendary aspect of the drama with an extended, inventive and attentive orchestration, thus indicating a decisive step in the “Rossinian Revolution” with the development of a pastoral style, one of the bases of Romantic opera.…”
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Transcending the Elements: the Meaning in the Mist and Stars in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations by Isabelle Stromberg

“…The stars act as the cosmic opposition to the mist, and they are synonymous with Pip’s elusive love interest, Estella. Through a reading of the mist and the stars, we gain a deeper connection to the nuances and foundational themes of Great Expectations. …”
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MEMBANGUN KOMUNIKASI EFEKTIF UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KUALITAS DALAM PROSES BELAJAR MENGAJAR by Tutut Handayani

“…Since the actual communication is basically the way to win others’ attention, love, interest, concern, sympathy, responsiveness, and positive answers.   …”
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Euthanasia among quadriplegics: a containment of autonomy in disability cinema by Cheang, Wai Yee

“…In the 2016 film Me Before You, the quadriplegic character advises his able-bodied love interest to “[l]ive boldly […] Just live well. Just live” (Me Before You). …”
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Email Romance? Elif Batuman’s 'The Idiot' as the Narrative of an “Unloving” Relationship by Spandita Das

“…By elaborating on the protagonists’ suspicion about the reality of the correspondence, the lack of any distinct narrative structure in it, the unexplained and unpredictable exits of the heroine’s love-interest at times, and her experience of chaotic emotions, this article demonstrates how the (presumed) love the heroine experiences is fraught with existential, procedural, normative, and emotional uncertainty.…”
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Fresh like a flower, invisible like peace: locating Phuong Within the orientalist margins of Graham Greene's The Quiet American by See Tow, Alexis York Ian

“…Scholarship argues that Phuong, the main female love interest caught between two men, is trapped in and subjected to the cage of the Oriental gaze. …”
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Elsa as Horse Whisperer in Disney’s <i>Frozen 2</i>: Opportunity “Nokk”s to Quash Gender Stereotypes by Lauren Dundes

“…In <i>Frozen 2</i>, however, substituting a male horse for a relationship with a human allows Disney to sidestep two potential controversies: (1) a queer love interest for Elsa, and (2) the portrayal of Elsa as wielding more power than a non-magically endowed male partner. …”
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The novels of Paul Heyse by Minns, C, Minns, Christopher J.

“…I then analyze the narrative techniques of the novels; consider the relationship of the works to the tradition of Realism; and try to account for the function of the love interest. The central chapters which investigate the novels' idea content show Heyse to be a moral subjectivist, strongly opposed to the heteronomy of Church and State; and an unashamed élitist in his opposition to literary Naturalism and his cult of 'high art'.…”

“This Is a Story about Regeneration”: Understanding The Missing: J. J. Macfield and the Island of Memories by Anne Ladyem McDivitt

“…The SWERY developed game involves physically dismembering the titular character to solve puzzles and move forward in her quest to locate her love interest, Emily. At first, it seems absurd and disturbing, but as the player moves through the game or reads the texts on J.J.’s phone, more of her story takes shape. …”
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Transforming the traditional sitcom: Abed in Community by Shannon Wells-Lassagne

“…He is surrounded by fellow students, the stereotypical misfits that people sitcoms: the matronly single black mother, the uptight overachiever, the dumb and arrogant jock, the attractive hippy (and love interest), and the retiree going back to school, whose cluelessness is butt of the majority of the jokes. …”
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Searching the New Labyrinth: the Echoes of Mercutio’s Banter in Paul’s Cross Churchyard by Dabbs, T

“…In Act II, scene IV, of Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio sardonically references six romantic heroines, who, he asserts, Romeo wishes to place his own love interest above.1 In each case, an EEBO-TCP search shows that the names of the mythological women Mercutio mentions had a comeuppance in then printed works during the 1590s. …”

The dialogues of the Cyropaedia by Gera, D, Gera, Deborah Levine

“…These conversations are shown to have several features or themes in common, such as a blend of serious and light conversation, a discussion of poverty and wealth, a love interest and rivalry among the guests. The symposia of the <em>Cyr</em>. are compared to earlier literary symposia, including those of Plato and Xenophon, and some of the more Persian features of these parties are pointed out.…”

Suicidal behavior and Autism Spectrum Disorder, what are the risk factors? – Case Report by C. Bayam, M. Tomé, C. Pedro, F. Cordeiro, M. J. Piçarra, L. Vale

“…Two years ago he showed a non-reciprocal love interest. Since then, he has had multiple visits to the emergency department and successive hospitalizations, mostly because of mood and behaviour alterations, with suicidal ideation. …”
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"Just be careful": Sexual Desire and Autism in YA Novels by Audrey Coussy

“…Their desirability is also underlined through the loving eyes of their love interests, sometimes in the form of alternating narratives. …”
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Lovestruck by Lau, Siew Ying Grace

“…LOVESTRUCK tells a story of two characters who went through a series of events while trying to chase after their love interests.…”
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A discussion about beauty, eroticism and the significance of muscle in Simone de Beauvoir’s the second sex and Yukio Mishima’s forbidden colours and confessions of a mask by Teo, Gerald Emmanuel

“…The former is a work of classical feminism that was written in 1949 and that addresses the question of why women all over the world in the 1940s occupied an inferior position to men whereas the latter are both gay-themed novels that were written in 1951 and 1949, respectively and that tell respectively, the story of an ugly, old novelist named Shunsuke Hinoki who uses a young and beautiful homosexual named Yuichi Minami to exact revenge on several of his former love interests and the story of a self-identified invert named Kochan who struggles to reconcile the demands placed upon him by his sexuality with the demands placed upon him by his society.…”
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“Nothing Can Touch You as Long as You Work”: Love and Work in Ernest Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden and For Whom the Bell Tolls by Lauren Rule Maxwell

“…The essay investigates why the protagonists devote themselves to their work and explains how the relationship of the protagonists’ love interests to their work helps define them. The “work” of these novels differs, but in both cases it is an art that substantiates the protagonists’ masculinity in part by forming meaningful, lasting connections with other people; this is true even in the case of Robert Jordan, whose art is destruction by design. …”
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Prefiguring the Otokonoko Genre: A Comparative Trans Analysis of Stop!! Hibari-Kun! and No Bra by Riley Hannah Lewicki

“…Both manga are centrally about this conflict between the love interests’ perceived maleness and the protagonists perceived heterosexuality. …”
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Teaching 'Twilight' in the EFL Classroom: Avoiding Possible Pitfalls and How to Use It in a Positive Manner by M. Carmen Gómez-Galisteo, Alexis Martel-Robaina

“…The use of Twilight in the classroom may be fraught with concerns that the series of novels have raised about the limited roles presented to female characters, the protagonist’s lack of independence, the similarities between the novels’ love interests and domestic abusers … For those reasons, we propose the use of Twilight to discuss issues such as the reliability (or unreliability) of first-person narrators, and, moreover, the reliability of one’s perceptions of the world. …”
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