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Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay
Hardback
Main Details
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Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Anne Carson
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Series | Princeton Classics |
Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:208 | Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140 |
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Category/Genre | History |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780691250625
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Classifications | Dewey:880.93543 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Princeton University Press
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Imprint |
Princeton University Press
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NZ Release Date |
20 June 2023 |
Publication Country |
United States
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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.
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