Amour Fou and Crazy in Love? Literature’s Take on Uncontrollable Passion as a Universal Aspect of the Human Condition
Keywords:
thematology, love, passion, postmodernism, popular culture, intermedialityAbstract
Amour Fou is a universal literary topos, which originates in ancient Greece and survived until the beginning of the 20th century. It lost a lot of its attraction within the context of postmodernism, medical findings and popular culture. This paper seeks to explore its re-emergence within a new visual media.References
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