Love, Desire and Transcendence in French Literature: Deciphering Eros

by Paul Gifford

European literature and theory of the twentieth century have been intensely preoccupied with questions of 'Desire', whereas 'love' has increasingly represented a fractured and strange, if not actually suspect, proposal: this is a prime symptom of an age of deep cultural mutation and uncertainty. Paul Gifford's book allows this considerable contemporary phenomenon to be observed steadily and whole, with strategic understanding of its origins, nature...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754652696
• ISBN13: 9780754652694
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 360 Pages