Poetics of Tenderness
Subtitle: On Falling in Love
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781498548335
Subjects: Love in literature; Sex in literature; Sex (psychology)
Description: "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"--