Eros and Thanatos. Love across Civilizations

'Eros and Thanatos' is about the deadly nature of love. It is remarkable that literary critics have paid so little attention to the combination between love and death in literature. This book seeks to address this significant scholarly lacuna by exploring key literary texts of the last two hundred years as exemplary of a consistent tendency toward love and death. Its emphasis on singular characters and close readings suggests the spectrum of an arbitrary dichotomy never fully resolved. The existential discussion triggered by each plot is so intense that the erotic and the merely sexual seem inappropriate. Indeed, each writer chose to reduce it to the setting and background of a story that takes place elsewhere. With this in mind, the author intends to reflect love's paradoxical nature. If love is triggered by beauty, beauty can be immoral and love must die to preserve the illusion of beauty.

Author: Alberto Castelli
Publisher: Vernon Press
Published: 11/29/2023
Pages: 254
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781648898044

About the Author
Castelli, Alberto: - Alberto Castelli is a Professor of Human Science at Hainan University, China. Chiefly, he is engaged with Modernism, Postmodern dynamics, and Cross-Cultural Studies. Castelli's publications include 'Perspective on Asia: Is China Kitsch?', published by Cambridge University Press, and 'Bipolarism in the Nineteenth Century Novel', published by the University of Toronto Quarterly.