Eros in Mourning: Homer to Lacan by Staten, Henry

Eros in Mourning: Homer to Lacan (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780801869990)

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Eros in Mourning: Homer to Lacan by Staten, Henry

Eros in Mourning: Homer to Lacan

$36.00
Eros in Mourning: Homer to Lacan by Staten, Henry

Eros in Mourning: Homer to Lacan

$36.00
Format: Paperback
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Eros in Mourning begins with a reading of the Iliad that shows how Homer, not yet influenced by the ideology of transcendence, analyzes the structure of unassuageable mourning in a way that is as up-to-date as the latest poststructuralism. Then, in readings of Dante, Hamlet, La Princess de Cleves, Heart of Darkness, and Lacan, Staten depicts the "thanatoerotic" hysteria that is set off by the specter of the dead and decomposing body that is also the body of sexual love and whic, in the "transcendentalizing" tradition, is more female than male. Yet, St. John, certain troubadours, and Milton offer glimpses of a more affirmative relation to "eros and mourning."

Author: Henry Staten
ISBN-10: 0801869994
ISBN-13: 9780801869990
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/1995
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.71d
By Henry Staten
By Henry Staten
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Henry Staten is a professor of English and comparative literature and adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Washington. He is the author of Wittgenstein and Derrida and Nietzsche's Voice.

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