The Poetics of Tenderness: On Falling in Love

by Robert Cantwell

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498548350
• ISBN13: 9781498548359
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"