Eros the bittersweet / Anne Carson.

By:

Carson, Anne, 1950- [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Normal, Illinois : Dalkey Archive Press, 1998.Description: xii, 189 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1564781887

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

880.93543

Summary: "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. Epigrammatic, witty, ironic, and endlessly interesting, Eros is an utterly original book."-- Back cover.

List(s) this item appears in: Anne Stewart's Collection

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book - 7-day loan	CYA Library Main Collection	880.93543 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000011570

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Originally published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1986.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and indexes.

"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. Epigrammatic, witty, ironic, and endlessly interesting, Eros is an utterly original book."-- Back cover.