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Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture (Literary Studies)

Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture (Literary Studies)

by JonathanDollimore (Author)

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    Hardcover 1998

    $206.93
Synopsis

Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture is a rich testament to our ubiquitous preoccupation with the tangled web of death and desire. In these pages we find nuanced analysis that blends Plato with Shelley, Hoelderlin with Foucault. Dollimore, a gifted thinker, is not content to summarize these texts from afar; instead, he weaves a thread through each to tell the magnificent story of the making of the modern individual.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 384
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 17 Sep 1998
ISBN 10: 0415921740
ISBN 13: 9780415921749

Media Reviews
... a pean to performing loss and desire.
-Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature
... this immensely wide-ranging account repays careful study.
- Library Journal
This is a work of breath-taking scope and reach. ...impressive command of sources and penetrating vision....
- Theological Studies
Prodigiously intelligent, deeply challenging and ultimately rewarding....
- Publishers Weekly
... an impressively versatile survey... Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture is a boldly transhistorical book from one who would lay claim to the title of cultural materialist.
- London Review of Books, 16 April 1998
Author Bio
Jonathan Dollimore is Professor in the School of English and American Studies at the University of Sussex. He is author of the critically acclaimed Sexual Dissidence.