Close this alert
Eros the Bittersweet (American Literature)
Current price:
$14.95
Publication Date: March 1st, 1998
Publisher:
Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN:
9781564781888
Pages:
190
Description
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet 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.
Other Books in Series
The Longcut (American Literature)
Paperback
Bern Book: A Record of a Voyage of the Mind (American Literature)
Paperback
Postscripts (American Literature)
Paperback
The Bern Book: A Record of a Voyage of the Mind (American Literature)
Paperback
Collected Stories: John Barth (American Literature)
Hardcover
No-No Boy (Classics of Asian American Literature)
Paperback
Christopher Unborn (Latin American Literature)
Paperback
Small Pieces (American Literature)
Hardcover
Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture #194)
Hardcover
Preorder
Literary Landscapes of Time: Multiple Temporalities and Spaces in Latin American and Caribbean Literatures (Latin American Literatures In The World / Literaturas Latino #15)
Paperback
Preorder
Post-Global Aesthetics: 21st Century Latin American Literatures and Cultures (Latin American Literatures In The World / Literaturas Latino #14)
Paperback
New Release
Understanding Barbara Kingsolver (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)
Paperback
Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues (American Literature)
Paperback
You'll Like It Here (American Literature)
Paperback
Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism (Latin American Literature and Culture #12)
Paperback
Preorder
Womb Work: Womb-Centered Health Narratives as Reparative PRAXIS in Black Women's Fiction (Clemson University Press: African American Literature)
Hardcover
In the Spirit of a New People: The Cultural Politics of the Chicano Movement
Paperback
Preorder
New Release
Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems in the Us Press, 1855-1901 (Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture)
Hardcover
History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil (Latin American Literature and Culture #6)
Paperback
Introduction to Latina/O Literature (Routledge Introductions to American Literature)
Hardcover