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What are the key features of romantic love? How is romantic love similar and different from other types of love? This chapter distinguishes various kinds of love within the context of a cross-cultural comparison of romantic love. A theoretical background for the cultural study of romantic love sets the scene in this chapter.
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Translation of Edward Asadov by Anne Mackenzie, retrieved from http://www.stihi.ru/2014/07/15/1033.
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Karandashev, V. (2017). The Concept of Romantic Love. In: Romantic Love in Cultural Contexts. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42683-9_1
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