false 150255 4 A book about love as seen by the ancients, Eros is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with: "It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet.' No one who has been in love disputes her. What does the word mean?", Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view and styles, transcending the constraints of the scholarly exercise for an evocative and lyrical meditation in the tradition of William Carlos William's Spring and All and William H. Gass's On Being Blue. <P>Epigrammatic, witty, ironic, and endlessly interesting, Eros is an utterly original book by an author whose acclaim has been steadily growing since the book was first published in 1986 by Johns Hopkins. 2599090 1986 Eros the Bittersweet total:330|5:183|4:103|3:36|2:8|1:0| 330 1451 540 31 4 1 true false Tue Oct 02 20:41:08 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 02 20:41:08 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 02:55:54 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 05:46:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri May 11 00:06:39 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 03 01:07:48 -0700 2007
It contains lovely, ephemeral passages that made me think in new ways about both the nature of eros and the classical poetry and philosophy Carson references -- how Eros exists in the momen...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Aug 28 09:40:04 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 09:51:49 -0700 2008
Why? Because this book, so thick with Carson's immense knowledge of classic...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 08:31:54 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 08:33:24 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Jul 11 00:09:33 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 00:10:14 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 27 22:13:34 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 23:58:44 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 30 23:18:28 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 23:19:21 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Mon Aug 20 23:37:34 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 02:21:33 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 14 07:11:59 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 07:12:39 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jun 17 11:29:35 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 11:30:14 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sat Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 21 12:45:12 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 15:00:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 03 15:39:40 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 13 19:43:56 -0800 2007
This one's very much in the realm of Symposium itself, of Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Space; I hate her thesis (or that of her sources, or both), and rail against it the whole way - and what she does with it is as endlessly fascinati...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Dec 18 07:55:29 -0800 2008 Mon Oct 26 13:46:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 09:34:49 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 16:21:11 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Mon Oct 15 17:17:24 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 15 17:21:52 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jun 26 09:14:38 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 26 09:16:50 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Tue Apr 08 16:04:20 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 16:08:55 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Wed Jan 09 18:19:18 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 09 18:24:00 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sun Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 10:28:30 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 10:31:09 -0700 2008 Well I do, and anyone that I ever loved would benefit tremendously from reading this. ]]>