Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar

by Kass, Amy A.; Kass, Leon R.

• ISBN13: 9780268019600
• ISBN10: 0268019606
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr

Summary

Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar is an anthology of source readings offered as a response to the contemporary cultural silence surrounding love that leads to marriage. It addresses important questions that emerge not from theory, but from practice: Why marry? Is this love? How can I find and win the right one to marry? What about sex? Why a wedding and the promises of marriage? What can married life be like?

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Where Are We Now? Assessing Our Situation	p. 23
Bailey, From Front Porch to Back Seat	p. 27
Stone, "Passionate Attachments in the West in Historical Perspective"	p. 38
Bloom, "Relationships"	p. 45
Blankenhorn, "I Do?"	p. 77
Why Marry? Defenses of Matrimony	p. 81
Darwin, "This is the Question"	p. 84
Aquinas, "Of the Marriage Goods"	p. 86
Erasmus, "A Praise of Marriage"	p. 92
Bacon, "Of Marriage and Single Life"	p. 107
Austen, Pride and Prejudice: For Love or Money?	p. 109
Kierkegaard, "Some Reflections on Marriage"	p. 120
Tucker, "Monogamy and Its Discontents"	p. 125
Meilaender, "Men and Women--Can We Be Friends?"	p. 140
Borowitz, "Speaking Personally"	p. 150
Muir, "The Annunciation"	p. 152
What About Sex? Man, Woman, and Sexuality	p. 155
Homer, The Coupling of Ares and Aphrodite	p. 159
Genesis 2:4-4:2: The Anthropology of Sex	p. 163
Rousseau, Emile: Sexual Complementarity	p. 167
Herodotus, The Story of Candaules and Gyges	p. 175
Kant, On Shame and Love	p. 177
Riezler, "Comment on the Social Psychology of Shame"	p. 179
May, "Four Mischievous Theories of Sex"	p. 189
Is This Love? Eros and Its Aims	p. 203
Divakaruni, "The Word Love"	p. 206
Plato, Symposium: Aristophanes' Speech on Eros	p. 215
Plato, Symposium: Socrates' Speech on Eros	p. 220
The Song of Songs	p. 232
De Rougemont, "The Tristan Myth"	p. 244
Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet	p. 255
Rousseau, Emile: Educating for Love	p. 268
Shakespeare, Sonnets 18, 115, and 116	p. 280
Rilke, Letters on Love	p. 282
Lewis, "Eros"	p. 288
How Can I Find and Win the Right One? Courtship	p. 303
Martin, Miss Manners' Advice on Courtship	p. 306
Genesis 24: Finding a Wife for Isaac	p. 313
Genesis 29-31: Jacob Finds a Wife	p. 317
Abraham, "The Engagement: A Story"	p. 324
Pitt-Rivers, The People of the Sierra	p. 342
Erasmus, "Courtship": A Colloquy	p. 353
Shakespeare, The Tempest	p. 365
Shakespeare, As You Like It	p. 375
Franklin, "Reflections on Courtship and Marriage"	p. 406
Franklin, "The Elysian Fields"	p. 419
Rousseau, Emile: The Courtship of Emile and Sophie	p. 421
Tolstoy, War and Peace: The Courtship of Pierre and Helene	p. 454
Tolstoy, Anna Karenina: Levin's Proposal to Kitty	p. 466
Austen, Pride and Prejudice: The Courtship of Darcy and Elizabeth	p. 470
Why A Wedding? The Promises of Marriage	p. 501
May, "The Covenant of Marriage"	p. 504
Marriage Vows and Blessings	p. 508
De Rougemont, "Active Love, or Keeping Faith"	p. 528
Kass and Kass, The Marriage Name	p. 538
What Can Married Life Be Like? The Blessings of Married Life	p. 545
Homer, The Reunion of Penelope and Odysseus	p. 547
Aristotle, The Friendship of Husband and Wife	p. 558
Jewish Midrash, Childless Love	p. 560
Kipling, "The Married Man: Reservist of the Line"	p. 562
Ballou, Letter to Sarah	p. 564
Tocqueville, Democracy in America: Marriage and Mores	p. 567
Rousseau, Emile: Married Lovers	p. 579
Kierkegaard, Lasting Love	p. 586
Capon, Bed and Board: Liturgies of Home	p. 594
Tolstoy, War and Peace, First Epilogue: Parents and Children	p. 613
Frost, "The Master Speed"	p. 630
Acknowledgments	p. 632
Sources and Credits	p. 633
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