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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... things remain unknown not because they are occluded or unspoken , but because they circulate constantly and visibly as commonplaces . As I write , a radio arts programme previews a new production of John Webster's The White Devil ( 1612 ) ...
... things remain unknown not because they are occluded or unspoken , but because they circulate constantly and visibly as commonplaces . As I write , a radio arts programme previews a new production of John Webster's The White Devil ( 1612 ) ...
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... things , but all human endeavour : all droops , all dies , all trodden under dust ; the person , place , and passages forgotten ; the hardest steel eaten with softest rust , the firm and solid tree both rent and rotten .. ( " The Ocean ...
... things , but all human endeavour : all droops , all dies , all trodden under dust ; the person , place , and passages forgotten ; the hardest steel eaten with softest rust , the firm and solid tree both rent and rotten .. ( " The Ocean ...
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... things should be . ( Edward Thomas , ' The New House ' ) In his poem ' Logs on the Hearth ' ( 1915 ) Thomas Hardy writes not of future loss , but of loss already incurred . He recalls a childhood moment when he and his sister were ...
... things should be . ( Edward Thomas , ' The New House ' ) In his poem ' Logs on the Hearth ' ( 1915 ) Thomas Hardy writes not of future loss , but of loss already incurred . He recalls a childhood moment when he and his sister were ...
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... thing ordinary : the movement of ' climbing upward inch by inch ' . The fork ' that first my hand would reach / And then my foot ' ( and this was a tree climbed many times ) is really seen only now ; or rather , seeing it again in the ...
... thing ordinary : the movement of ' climbing upward inch by inch ' . The fork ' that first my hand would reach / And then my foot ' ( and this was a tree climbed many times ) is really seen only now ; or rather , seeing it again in the ...
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