Love’s Shadow / / Paul A. Bové.
A case for literary critics and other humanists to stop wallowing in their aestheticized helplessness and instead turn to poetry, comedy, and love.Literary criticism is an agent of despair, and its poster child is Walter Benjamin. Critics have spent decades stewing in his melancholy. What if instead...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter one. The Path of Sorrows
- Chapter two. The Will to Destruction as the Basis of Allegory
- Chapter three. A Socratic Interlude
- Chapter four. Wallace Stevens and the Confidence of Imagination
- Chapter five. Adorno
- Chapter six. An Interchapter
- Chapter seven. “The Auroras of Autumn”
- Chapter eight. Rembrandt, Bathsheba, and the Textures of Art
- Chapter nine. “What Think You of Falling in Love?”
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index