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9780801869990 Academic Inspection Copy

Eros in Mourning

From Homer to Lacan
  • ISBN-13: 9780801869990
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Henry Staten
  • Price: AUD $77.99
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  • Local release date: 14/01/2002
  • Format: Paperback 248 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Literary theory [DSA]
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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 Clèves,Heart of Darkness, and Lacan, Staten depicts the ''thanato-erotic'' hysteria that is set off by the specter of the dead and decomposing body that is also the body of sexual love and which, 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 in mourning.''

""Eros in Mourning offers the groundwork for a new poetics, which we can confidently call a poetics of mourning.""

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