Anne Carson
overview
A book about love as seen by the ancients, Eros 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. What does the word mean?", Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view and styles, transcending the constraints of the scholarly exercise for an evocative and lyrical meditation in the tradition of William Carlos William's Spring and All and William H. Gass's On Being Blue.
Epigrammatic, witty, ironic, and endlessly interesting, Eros is an utterly original book by an author whose acclaim has been steadily growing since the book was first published in 1986 by Johns Hopkins.
contents
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 This Dialogue About?
Mythoplokos
Bibliography
Index of Passages Discussed
General Index
