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Love’s Shadow (Hardcover)
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Love’s Shadow (Hardcover)
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A case for literary critics and other humanists to stop wallowing
in their aestheticized helplessness and instead turn to poetry,
comedy, and love. Literary criticism is an agent of despair, and
its poster child is Walter Benjamin. Critics have spent decades
stewing in his melancholy. What if, instead, we dared to love
poetry, to choose comedy over Hamlet’s tragedy, or to pursue
romance over Benjamin’s suicide on the edge of France, of Europe,
and of civilization itself? Paul A. Bové challenges young lit
critters to throw away their shades and let the sun shine in.
Love’s Shadow is his three-step manifesto for a new literary
criticism that risks sentimentality and melodrama and eschews
self-consciousness. The first step is to choose poetry. There has
been since the time of Plato a battle between philosophy and
poetry. Philosophy has championed misogyny, while poetry has
championed women, like Shakespeare’s Rosalind. Philosophy is ever
so stringent; try instead the sober cheerfulness of Wallace
Stevens. Bové’s second step is to choose the essay. He praises
Benjamin’s great friend and sometime antagonist Theodor Adorno,
who gloried in writing essays, not dissertations and treatises. The
third step is to choose love. If you want a Baroque hero, make that
hero Rembrandt, who brought lovers to life in his paintings.
Putting aside passivity and cynicism would amount to a revolution
in literary studies. Bové seeks nothing less, and he has a program
for achieving it.
General
Imprint: |
Harvard University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2021 |
Authors: |
Paul A. Bové
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 40mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
464 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-674-97715-0 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-674-97715-7 |
Barcode: |
9780674977150 |
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