Eros the bittersweet / Anne Carson.
Material type: TextPublication details: Normal, Illinois : Dalkey Archive Press, 1998.Description: xii, 189 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1564781887
- 880.93543
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Book - 7-day loan | CYA Library Main Collection | 880.93543 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00000011570 |
Total holds: 0
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.