Love's shadow
"It is no wonder literary criticism is so sullen. It is too philosophical, too much indebted to the dour Walter Benjamin, wedded to aestheticized helplessness. Criticism needs new inspirations: the sober cheer of Wallace Stevens; the loving eye of Rembrandt; romance, melodrama, and wit. Let there be more poetry, Paul Bové says, and less cynicism"--
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- Full title :Love's shadow / Paul A. Bové.
Summary
"It is no wonder literary criticism is so sullen. It is too philosophical, too much indebted to the dour Walter Benjamin, wedded to aestheticized helplessness. Criticism needs new inspirations: the sober cheer of Wallace Stevens; the loving eye of Rembrandt; romance, melodrama, and wit. Let there be more poetry, Paul Bové says, and less cynicism"--
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- Publication Date:2021.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2021.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xi, 442 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780674247635, 0674247639
- oclc:on1225931592
- LC Classification:PN81
- Dewey Decimal:808.1
Table of Contents
The path of sorrows -- The will to destruction as the basis of allegory -- A Socratic interlude -- Wallace Stevens and the confidence of imagination -- Adorno -- An interchapter -- The auroras of autumn -- Rembrandt, Bathsheba, and the textures of art -- "What think you of falling in love?"
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