Love & language
- Title
- Love & language / Ilan Stavans with Verónica Albin.
- Published by
- New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007.
- Author
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- Description
- xviii, 261 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations; 19 cm
- Summary
- "Our understanding of love today is not the same as the one espoused by Plato in the fourth century B.C.E. Nor is it the same as the courtly love of the Renaissance, or love as defined by Stendhal or Proust or Freud. In this utterly original book, cultural critic Ilan Stavans engages in an exhilarating dialogue with Veronica Albin about love and its various manifestations. Roaming through millennia, across geographical boundaries, and from culture to culture."--Jacket.
- Alternative title
- Love and language
- Subject
- Contents
- Vortices of love -- The uses of Eros -- Love and poetry -- Beauty and taste -- A catalog of perversion -- For love of community -- Epilogue: Silencio.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Note
- Includes index.