Eros in Mourning Henry Staten

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John, certain troubadours, and Milton offer glimpses of a more affirmative relation to eros in mourning.

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Eros in Mourning: From Homer to Lacan by Henry Staten

Eros in Mourning begins with a reading of the Iliad that shows how Homer, not yet influenced by the ideology of transcendence, analyzes the structure of unassuageable mourning in a way that is as up-to-date as the latest poststructuralism. Then, in readings of Dante, Hamlet, La Princess de Cleves, Heart of Darkness, and Lacan, Staten depicts the thanatoerotic hysteria that is set off by the specter of the dead and decomposing body that is also the body of sexual love and whic, in the transcendentalizing tradition, is more female than male. Yet, St. John, certain troubadours, and Milton offer glimpses of a more affirmative relation to eros and mourning.

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At the end of Henry Staten's breathtaking Eros in Mourning we are left to stare blindly into the awesome face of that which is said to transfix the canonical avatars of Western man from the grieving hero Akhilleus (Achilles) in Homer's Iliad to the death-driven psychoanalyst in The Seminar of Jacques Lacan... A splendid series of readings. -- Steven Z. Levine Bryn Mawr Classical Review Staten is at his most astonishing when he illustrates how texts that on the manifest level appear to advocate an idealizing preservation of the self, on a latent one advocate a radical embrace of mortality and an absolute expenditure of the self. -- Elisabeth Bronfen Modern Language Review Eros in Mourning offers the groundwork for a new poetics, which we can confidently call a poetics of mourning. Cultural Critique 2005

About Henry Staten

Henry Staten is a professor of English and comparative literature and adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Washington. He is the author of Wittgenstein and Derrida and Nietzsche's Voice.

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ISBN 13

9780801869990

ISBN 10

0801869994

Title

Eros in Mourning: From Homer to Lacan by Henry Staten

Author

Henry Staten

Condition

Used - Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Year published

2002-02-09

Number of pages

248

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