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Love, Desire and Transcendence in French Literature
Paul Gifford
其他書名
Deciphering Eros
出版Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2005
主題Literary Criticism / European / French
ISBN07546526969780754652694
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=mzpbyNXLwLsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋European literature and theory of the twentieth century has been intensely preoccupied with questions of 'Desire', whereas 'love' has increasingly represented a fractured and strange, if not actually suspect, proposal: this is a prime symptom of an age of deep cultural mutation and uncertainty. Paul Gifford's book allows this considerable contemporary phenomenon to be observed steadily and whole, with strategic understanding of its origins, nature and meaning. Gifford paints a clear and coherent picture of the evolution of erotic ideas and their imaginary and formal expressions in modern French writing. He first retraces the formative matrix of French tradition by engaging with five classic sources: Plato's Symposium, the Song of Songs, the myth of Genesis, the tension between Greek Eros and Christian Agape and the repercussions of Nietzsche's declaration of the 'death of God'.