Death, Desire and Loss in Western CultureDeath, 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, Hölderlin 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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Jonathan Dollimore. Death , Desire and Loss in Western Culture BY THE SAME AUTHOR Radical Tragedy : Religion , Ideology.
Jonathan Dollimore. Death , Desire and Loss in Western Culture BY THE SAME AUTHOR Radical Tragedy : Religion , Ideology.
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... loss somehow always in excess of the loss of anything in particular . W. B. Yeats put it succinctly enough : ' Man is in love and loves what vanishes , / What more is there to say ? ' ( ' Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen ' ) . The ...
... loss somehow always in excess of the loss of anything in particular . W. B. Yeats put it succinctly enough : ' Man is in love and loves what vanishes , / What more is there to say ? ' ( ' Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen ' ) . The ...
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... loss , but of loss already incurred . He recalls a childhood moment when he and his sister were climbing a tree . She is now dead , the tree has been felled , and the poet is watching a log from it burning in the grate : The fire ...
... loss , but of loss already incurred . He recalls a childhood moment when he and his sister were climbing a tree . She is now dead , the tree has been felled , and the poet is watching a log from it burning in the grate : The fire ...
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