Eros the Bittersweet
eBook - ePub

Eros the Bittersweet

  1. 190 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Eros the Bittersweet

About this book

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.

Epigrammatic, witty, ironic, and endlessly entertaining, Eros is an utterly original book.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Preface
  8. Bittersweet
  9. Gone
  10. Ruse
  11. Tactics
  12. The Reach
  13. Finding the Edge
  14. Logic at the Edge
  15. Losing the Edge
  16. Archilochos at the Edge
  17. Alphabetic Edge
  18. What Does the Lover Want from Love?
  19. Symbolon
  20. A Novel Sense
  21. Something Paradoxical
  22. My Page Makes Love
  23. Letters, Letters
  24. Folded Meanings
  25. Bellerophon Is Quite Wrong After All
  26. Realist
  27. Ice-Pleasure
  28. Now Then
  29. Erotikos Logos
  30. The Sidestep
  31. Damage to the Living
  32. Midas
  33. Cicadas
  34. Gardening for Fun and Profit
  35. Something Serious Is Missing
  36. Takeover
  37. Read Me the Bit Again
  38. Then Ends Where Now Begins
  39. What a Difference a Wing Makes
  40. What Is This Dialogue About?
  41. Mythoplokos
  42. Bibliography
  43. Index of Passages Discussed
  44. General Index
  45. Back Cover