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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... sense that all being is governed by a ceaseless process of change inseparable from an inconsolable sense of loss somehow always in excess of the loss of anything in particular . W. B. Yeats put it succinctly enough : ' Man is in love ...
... sense that all being is governed by a ceaseless process of change inseparable from an inconsolable sense of loss somehow always in excess of the loss of anything in particular . W. B. Yeats put it succinctly enough : ' Man is in love ...
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... sense of loss is most intense in the visual detail ( " Where the bark chars ' ) , and in the longer history which the detail evokes : the bark was pruned , bled , recovered , became the stronger for it , only then to die . Hardy's ...
... sense of loss is most intense in the visual detail ( " Where the bark chars ' ) , and in the longer history which the detail evokes : the bark was pruned , bled , recovered , became the stronger for it , only then to die . Hardy's ...
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... sense of individual selfhood , in our own time- and corresponding to the crisis if not the collapse of that expansionist era – we have wit- nessed the death of this individual and ' his ' universal counterpart , ' man ' . - For several ...
... sense of individual selfhood , in our own time- and corresponding to the crisis if not the collapse of that expansionist era – we have wit- nessed the death of this individual and ' his ' universal counterpart , ' man ' . - For several ...
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