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Love, Desire and Transcendence in French Literature - Deciphering Eros (Hardcover, New edition)
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Love, Desire and Transcendence in French Literature - Deciphering Eros (Hardcover, New edition)
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European literature and theory of the twentieth century have been
intensely preoccupied with questions of 'Desire', whereas 'love'
has increasingly represented a fractured and strange, if not
actually suspect, proposal: this is a prime symptom of an age of
deep cultural mutation and uncertainty. Paul Gifford's book allows
this considerable contemporary phenomenon to be observed steadily
and whole, with strategic understanding of its origins, nature and
meaning. Gifford paints a clear and coherent picture of the
evolution of erotic ideas and their imaginary and formal
expressions in modern French writing. He first retraces the
formative matrix of French tradition by engaging with five classic
sources: Plato's Symposium, the Song of Songs, the myth of Genesis,
the tension between Greek Eros and Christian Agape and the
repercussions of Nietzsche's declaration of the 'death of God'.
Modern variations on these perennial problematics are then pursued
in ten chapters devoted to Proust, Valery, Claudel, Breton,
Bataille, Duras, Barthes, Irigarary, Emmanuel, Kristeva. Literary
and theoretical perspectives are perfectly blended in his study of
these attempts at 'deciphering Eros'. The book will appeal not only
to students of French literature, but to all those interested in
the cultural upheavals of the twentieth century.
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