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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... significant cultural precedents ; they invoke , for instance , the medieval or Jacobean obses- sion with death as somehow the motor of life : In this light people changed all the time . One moment they were pristine youth , the next a ...
... significant cultural precedents ; they invoke , for instance , the medieval or Jacobean obses- sion with death as somehow the motor of life : In this light people changed all the time . One moment they were pristine youth , the next a ...
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... significant that much of the past is echoed in this fatalistic binding together of sex and death . From the outset , Hugo's fate ( death ) seems to be latent in his desire . AIDS is not so much a punishment for promiscuity – the wages ...
... significant that much of the past is echoed in this fatalistic binding together of sex and death . From the outset , Hugo's fate ( death ) seems to be latent in his desire . AIDS is not so much a punishment for promiscuity – the wages ...
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... significant factors of all in the connection of desire and death . On the one hand , mutability is the ineluctable enemy of desire because it ceaselessly thwarts it : ' Man is in love and loves what vanishes . ' In another poem , ' xvi ...
... significant factors of all in the connection of desire and death . On the one hand , mutability is the ineluctable enemy of desire because it ceaselessly thwarts it : ' Man is in love and loves what vanishes . ' In another poem , ' xvi ...
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... as we shall see , even as it idealizes the predetermined and the static , no culture has a more significant history of obsessive , expansive , restless movement . The death of man ? Iexplore the history of this xvii INTRODUCTION.
... as we shall see , even as it idealizes the predetermined and the static , no culture has a more significant history of obsessive , expansive , restless movement . The death of man ? Iexplore the history of this xvii INTRODUCTION.
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... significant , meaning both satisfying climax and being consumed or vanishing into nothing . ( It is sometimes said that Ham- let's problem is that he cannot or will not act , suffering as he does from an inertia of the will . Actually ...
... significant , meaning both satisfying climax and being consumed or vanishing into nothing . ( It is sometimes said that Ham- let's problem is that he cannot or will not act , suffering as he does from an inertia of the will . Actually ...
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