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The study analyzes lyrical and iconographic depictions of flying lovers to explain how “happy love” is constructed in the air while also revealing love’s fragile condition through ambivalences of the flight dream. It asks what the vision of flying promises, which concepts of love and happiness it activates, and how atmosphere connects meteorological and emotional meanings, combining utopian, technical, mythological and organic perspectives.",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":40,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/research-report/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/love-is-in-the-air-flying-lovers-in-lyric-poetry-and-iconographic-representations/608029/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/love-is-in-the-air-flying-lovers-in-lyric-poetry-and-iconographic-representations/608029.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"Boyslovefans","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-31","2026-10-17",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":14},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"What is the central focus of the paper?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"The paper investigates lyrical and iconographic images of flying lovers and how they construct happy love while also showing the fragility of love through ambivalent flight dreams.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"What questions does the paper address about the vision of flying?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"It asks what is expected from the vision of flying, which ideas of love and happiness underlie these visions, and what is gained by turning the dream into a “reality”.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"How is atmosphere used in understanding love?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"Atmosphere is treated as a connection between meteorological and emotional aspects, shaping how love is interpreted in relation to flight scenes.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},608029,1792210542,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":39,"category_name":40,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":14,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":139,"language":140,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":129,"read_time":144},1374410101428,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_3d24733baf745e90a7e4bdd5f77d97b2","PhiN 95/2023: 34  \nMonika Szczepaniak (Bydgoszcz)  \nLove is in the air  \nFlying lovers in lyric poetry and iconographic representations  \nBased on the cultural attractiveness of the connection between love and flight, this paper analyzes various lyrical and iconographic images of flying lovers in the epoch of technical flights within German-speaking culture (from the beginning of the 20th century to the present) in order to explore the construction of happy love in the air as well as the fragile condition of love which is represented by the ambivalences ofthe flight dream. The following questions are addressed: What is expected from the vision of flying? Which concepts of love and happiness underlie these visions and what is finally gained by transforming the dream into a 'reality'? What role does the atmosphere as a connection of meteorological and emotional aspects play in the understanding of love? By investigating utopian, atmospheric, organic, mythological, and technical aspects of love flight scenes, this paper provides a contribution to cultural atmospheric research as well as to love studies as an interdisciplinary field.  \n1 Happiness in the air  \nThe dream of flying, of following the birds, of soaring and moving through the air is one of the oldest and most culturally attractive imaginations. This ancient anthropological desire for liberation from gravity or from an insurmountable dependence on the limitations of human nature and everyday reality manifests itself in numerous mythological or religious visions, fairy tale motifs, magical practices, symbolic orders as well as technical experiments (Behringer/ Ott-Koptschalijski 1991) . Eventhough the invention of aircraft is a historical fact, the weightlessness of the human body has not been achieved: what is able to fly are machines and vehicles, not human beings \"without apparatus merely with/ outstretched arms\" 1 (Hartung 2005: 57) . The old dream remains unfulfilled, but it is important to note that flying has never been imagined as \"the epitome of luxury, speed or distance transport\" (Macho 2003: 331), but rather as a wishful image of freedom, spirituality, and eroticism2 – a vision which involves a risk of falling to the earth because the flying subject\"moves in the vertical: between the sky and the abyss\" (Macho 2003: 331) . The metaphor of flight touches on the most important, anthropologically grounded, existential themes, above all freedom, transcendence, and immortality. It articulates not only the dream of an unleashed movement but also a need for mobility in a certain direction, namely heavenward – and, therefore, implies the hope of happiness.  \nThe weightlessness, or the eternal dream of not being bound to time and space, passages between high and low worlds, but also the constant danger of falling are important parts of modernity which permanently tries to explore the possibilities and limits of the feasible. Flight imaginations and imagined flights, or the more or less harmonious air space, as they are created in literature and art, are reminiscent not only of high-flying modern projects and plans but also of movement imaginations (Bachelard 2011) in the sense of utopian thinking. Utopia is indeed a space of possibility, a projected ideal place, which, as Deleuze and Guattari (1994: 99–100) aptly formulate, \"does not split off from infinite movement: etymologically it stands  \n1 \"ohne Apparat bloß mit/ ausgebreiteten Armen\". Unless otherwise noted, all translations from German in this article are my own.  \n2 The tradition of erotic implications in the depictions of flight has been addressed in past research, for example, Hart (1997) and Behringer/ Ott-Koptschalijski (1991: 73–76)  \nPhiN 95/2023: 35  \nfor absolute deterritorialization, but always at the critical point at which it is connected with the present relative milieu, and especially with the forces that stifle that milieu\" . In addition to the spatial fantasies of lightness, happiness, salvation","cbCaiaRQjE3dt5q4","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaRQjE3dt5q4","pdf",342551,18,"English","# Happiness in the air\n## The oldest imagination of flight\n## Modernity, possibility, and the risk of falling\n## Utopia, atmosphere, and social connotations\n## The cultural history of love and flight","[{\"question\":\"What is the central focus of the paper?\",\"answer\":\"The paper investigates lyrical and iconographic images of flying lovers and how they construct happy love while also showing the fragility of love through ambivalent flight dreams.\"},{\"question\":\"What questions does the paper address about the vision of flying?\",\"answer\":\"It asks what is expected from the vision of flying, which ideas of love and happiness underlie these visions, and what is gained by turning the dream into a “reality”.\"},{\"question\":\"How is atmosphere used in understanding love?\",\"answer\":\"Atmosphere is treated as a connection between meteorological and emotional aspects, shaping how love is interpreted in relation to flight scenes.\"}]","Love is in the air - Flying lovers in lyric poetry and iconographic representations | PDF",45]