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The poetics of tenderness : on falling in love
- Title
- The poetics of tenderness : on falling in love / Robert Cantwell.
- Author
- Cantwell, Robert, 1945-
- Publication
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 18-1237 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- lviii, 271 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This book, a literary-critical work on love, argues that romantic love originates neither in the gratification of appetite nor in the sexual drive, but in the nurturing relation of caregiver and child. When we, distinguish between self and other, love engages our aesthetic and analytic capacities together to recognize and to create the beloved"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Prologue: falling in love -- The white heron: an introduction -- Hooking up -- The smart that has no name -- Lolita -- Love objects -- Kissing cousins -- Epilogue.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-1237
- ISBN
- 9781498548335
- 1498548334
- LCCN
- 2017041717
- OCLC
- 1005684493
- Author
- Cantwell, Robert, 1945- author.
- Title
- The poetics of tenderness : on falling in love / Robert Cantwell.
- Publisher
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-1237