Portrayals of Love in Literature and Culture with John Briggs

10,00

May 14, 2022 – ‘Love makes the world go round,’ according to a song from the Broadway musical Carnival. Certainly the theme of love stands out as a central force motivating poetry, fiction, film, and popular culture. This session explores selected familiar works of literature and popular culture in order to consider what clues these they contain to the implicit meanings of love that haunt us. What secret does the song suggest when it tells us:  Love makes the world go ‘round Love makes the world go ‘round Somebody soon will love you If no one loves you now In the…