True Love Stories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2408110 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Douglas Sadao Aoki |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 97-111 |
| Publication date | 2004-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1532708603259447 |
| OpenAlex | W2079336868 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This article attempts to say something about love by examining how love defies being said (or written). One of its early propositions is that we have little choice but to plagiarize love, and the text proceeds by doing just that. But its plagiarism is selective, explicit, and carefully arranged, so that elegant inarticulations of love by Kristeva, Arendt, Geertz, and a host of others shape a determined narrative line. The text moves from writer to writer and from bodies to mystery, not to build an argument, but to pursue a gambit: Perhaps love is constituted in the very impossibility of its articulation. Of course, the inevitable implication is that the article can only succeed by failing. Still, such failures can be redemptive, for love itself suggests the simultaneous admission and defiance of futility-at least, that will be the author's sort-of conclusion
Argument (complex analysis · Art · Articulation (sociology · Epistemology · Gambit · Impossibility · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · sort · Computer Science · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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