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Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Anne Carson
SeriesPrinceton Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:208
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenreLiterary studies - classical, early and medieval
History
Ethics and moral philosophy
ISBN/Barcode 9780691247939
ClassificationsDewey:880.93543
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
NZ Release Date 1 May 2023
Publication Country United States

Description

The insights presented in the volume are many and wide-ranging, recognizably in tune with the subtlest modern discussions of desire (such as triangulation. or loving what others love), yet offering new solutions to old problems, like the proper interpretation of Plato's Phaedrus. On the frequently discussed effect of literacy on Greek civilization,

Author Biography

Anne Carson was born in Canada and now lives partly in Iceland. She is an acclaimed poet, essayist, translator, and classicist, and has won numerous awards, including a MacArthur, the PEN/Nabokov Award, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her books Autobiography of Red and Nox were both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry.