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Title:
Eros the bittersweet / Anne Carson.
Author:
Carson, Anne, 1950-
Publication Information:
Champaign; London Dalkey Archive Press, 1998.
Call Number:
BL820 .C65 C37 1998
Abstract:
"A book about romantic love, Eros is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, "It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet.' No one who has been in love disputes her," Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view, creating a lyrical meditation in the tradition of William Carlos Williams's Spring and All and William H. Gass's On Being Blue."--Jacket.
Edition:
1st Dalkey Archive ed.
ISBN:
9781564781888
Series:
Canadian literature series

Canadian literature series.
Physical Description:
xii, 189 pages ; 22 cm.
General Note:
Originally published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1986.
Contents:
Bittersweet -- Gone -- Ruse -- Tactics -- The reach -- Finding the edge -- Logic at the edge -- Losing the edge -- Archilochos at the edge -- Alphabetic edge -- What does the lover want from love? -- Symbolon -- A novel sense -- Something paradoxical -- My page makes love -- Letters, letters -- Folded meanings -- Bellerophon is quite wrong after all -- Realist -- Ice-pleasure -- Now then -- Erotikos logos -- The sidestep -- Damage to the living -- Midas -- Cicadas -- Gardening for fun and profit -- Something serious is missing -- Takeover -- Read me the bit again -- Then ends where now begins -- What a difference a wing makes -- What is this dialogue about? -- Mythoplokos.
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