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TY - JOUR
T1 - Love's schema and correction
T2 - a queer twist on a general principle
AU - Pearce, Lynne
PY - 2016/7/15
Y1 - 2016/7/15
N2 - In a development of my previous work on romance and repetition (see JPRS 2.1 and Ganteau and Onega 2013), this article engages W.H. Gombrich’s theory of artistic production as a process of ‘schema and correction’ in order to hypothesise why some lovers find it hard, if not impossible, to ‘live and love again’ when their relationships end. Through a close reading of Annie Proulx’s ‘Brokeback Mountain’ (1999), I explore the perceptual and cognitive mechanisms that initiate and sustain the twenty-year relationship between Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist focusing, in particular, on the ways in which the effort required to twist normative schemas of love and desire into a shape (gestalt) that accommodates homosexual attraction renders the beloved seemingly unique and irreplaceable.
AB - In a development of my previous work on romance and repetition (see JPRS 2.1 and Ganteau and Onega 2013), this article engages W.H. Gombrich’s theory of artistic production as a process of ‘schema and correction’ in order to hypothesise why some lovers find it hard, if not impossible, to ‘live and love again’ when their relationships end. Through a close reading of Annie Proulx’s ‘Brokeback Mountain’ (1999), I explore the perceptual and cognitive mechanisms that initiate and sustain the twenty-year relationship between Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist focusing, in particular, on the ways in which the effort required to twist normative schemas of love and desire into a shape (gestalt) that accommodates homosexual attraction renders the beloved seemingly unique and irreplaceable.
KW - Romantic love
KW - Annie Proulx
KW - schema theory
KW - gestalt
KW - repetition
KW - romance
KW - schema and correction
KW - W.H. Gombrich
M3 - Journal article
VL - 5
SP - 1
EP - 18
JO - Journal of Popular Romance Studies
JF - Journal of Popular Romance Studies
SN - 2159-4473
IS - 2
ER -