Eros the bittersweet an essay
Since it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has established itself as a favorite among an unusually broad audience, including classicists, essayists, poets, and general readers. Beginning with the poet Sapph...
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Eros the bittersweet : |b an essay / |c Anne Carson. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Princeton, N.J. : |b Princeton University Press, |c [1986] | |
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| 300 | |a xii, 189 pages ; |c 23 cm. | ||
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| 353 | |a index |b index |0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/msupplcont/index | ||
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| 490 | 1 | |a Princeton legacy library | |
| 500 | |a "Published for the Center for Hellenic Studies." | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and indexes. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Abbreviations -- Preface -- 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 the dialogue about? -- Mythoplokos -- Bibliography -- Index of passages discussed -- General index. | |
| 546 | |a Includes quotations in ancient Greek with English translations. | ||
| 508 | |a Published for the Center for Hellenic Studies. | ||
| 520 | |a Since it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has established itself as a favorite among an unusually broad audience, including classicists, essayists, poets, and general readers. Beginning with the poet Sappho's invention of the word "bittersweet" to describe Eros, Carson's original and beautifully written book is a wide-ranging reflection on the conflicted nature of romantic love, which is both "miserable" and "one of the greatest pleasures we have." | ||
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