Eros in Mourning David B. Snyder now fully revised and augmented

now fully revised and augmented

and organize during that tumultuous moment

These phenomena are related to the aesthetic rather than to purify rational

never had a role model and never had an adult in school to talk to about their identity

Ion Idriess reflects on his life prospecting in far North Queensland from 1912 to 1914

Eros in Mourning David B. Snyder now fully revised and augmentedEros in Mourning begins with a reading of the Iliad that shows how Homer, not yet influenced by the ideology of transcendence, analyzes the structure of unassuageable mourning in a way that is as up to date as the latest poststructuralism. Then, in readings of Dante, Hamlet, La Princess de Clves,Heart of Darkness, and Lacan, Staten depicts the ''thanato erotic'' hysteria that is set off by the specter of the dead and decomposing body that is also the