Her and the Hardwiring of Romanticism.
The breathless pursuit of an unattainable ideal, a trademark of English Romantic poetry, resurfaces in the 2013 film Her, written and directed by Spike Jonze. The possibility of securing such an ideal is presented in the film when the main character meets the girl of his dreams-a computer operating...
| Publicado en: | Pacific Coast Philology Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 54 - 69 |
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Pennsylvania State University Press
2017
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