By C.D.C. REEVE

ISBN-10: 0674017110

ISBN-13: 9780674017115

ISBN-10: 0674025636

ISBN-13: 9780674025639

starting from Plato to writers as different as Shakespeare, Proust, Forster, Beckett, Huxley, Lawrence, and Larkin, Reeve brings the monstrous assets of Western literature and philosophy to endure at the query of affection. love in gentle of the classical international and Christianity, and in its advanced courting with pornography, violence, sadomasochism, myth, sentimentality, and jealousy, Reeve invitations us to imagine extra commonly approximately love, and to discover the confusions that unavoidably end result to be artistic instead of disturbing.

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