Clio, Eros, Thanatos : The 'Novela Sentimental' in Context
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0820449938
ISBN-13
9780820449937
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 13th, 2001
Print length
283 Pages
Weight
530 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 23.60 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: general
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Clio, Eros, Thanatos argues that the sentimental mode plays itself out along a scale from the chivalric to the pornographic, thereby encompassing amatory narratives both chaste and erotic. The texts studied – Le Chevalier de la Charette, Cárcel de amor, Celestina, and La Princesse de Clèves – implicate both private and public realms in an irresistible drive toward an impossible unity, the result of which is usually a form of death. Here, desire is never dealt with on a simple, bodily level, but rather is analyzed according to some ethical, moral, rational, or political criteria, which turns love into an aesthetic, rather than a mimetic, phenomenon. Already in the fifteenth century, the Spanish novela sentimental presents the evidence for the erotic paradox, which dominates the sentimental mode, that argues that desire/love is ethically and aesthetically enobling, and at the same time, morally subversive and destructive.
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