*These files also reside in a Google Drive folder accessible for students enrolled in the course.
Chapter 7 — Emergent and embedded love
- Three types of love with course analytic boundary framed (image)
- Concept of “emergence” graphically illustrated (image)
- Sternberg’s triangular theory of love (image)
Chapter 8 — Cultural Contexts: Worldviews, ethical values, common practices
- Sharing riceballs—film still from 5 Centimeters Per Second (image)
- Sharing riceballs—sound file from 5 Centimeters Per Second (sound file)
Chapter 9 — Exploring culture through mindreading and narratives
- Daiyu, Baochai and Baoyu of Story of the Stone with relationship explained using the five elements of ancient Chinese cosmology (image)
Chapter 11 —Managing complex interpretive environments: Pluralities
- Karen Overhill’s color pencil self-portrait (image)
Chapter 13—Arrays of cultural contexts
- Mimi-Lulu’s smile in the Chinese film 2046 (2004) (movie file)
- The climax scene from the Korean film Shiri (1999) (movie file)
- Traditional yin-yang symbol with yin inside yang and yang inside yin (image)
Chapter 15 — Building interpretive projects: Theory meets practice
- A “real world” ToM with a body, in a situation, whose thinking, feeling, and action content is determined by a wide variety of factors
- Sharpening the description of a love narrative’s progress location using the narrative love circle
- Variations of the love narrative circle
- The difference between authoritative thought systems, fragments, and derivatives is a question of degree and need for most credible interpretation
- Deciding distance between a cultural context and a ToM
- The affirmation-rejection spectrum plotted horizontally with the topical intensity spectrum plotted vertically
- Arrayed contexts as systems, fragments, or derivatives, determined from the perspective of a ToM
- Part of ToM’s world showing two cultural contexts at equal distance, in a possibly competitive array
- The narrative world in which we place a ToM and its cultural context
- ToM’s world as embedded in the world of the author / director
Chapter 19 — Limiting the scope of interpretive projects
- Three types of love with course analytic boundary framed (image)
Chapter 27 — Ancient Chinese Cosmology, Daoism, and Daoist-like elements in East Asian love narratives
- The Eight Trigrams as the first set of essential change-states, via various combinations of yang (long line) and yin (dashed line), correlated with the seasons and natural formations
- Yang and yin dividing into the eight trigrams
- Ode 189, Shi-jing (Classic of Poetry, 11th to 7th centuries BCE)
- Daiyu, Baochai and Baoyu of Story of the Stone with relationship explained using the five elements of ancient Chinese
Chapter 28—Confucianism in East Asian love narratives
- Worksheet for exploring the relationship between traditional Confucian values and various terms and concepts regarding Western contested-love (image)