Dead Lovers: Erotic Bonds and the Study of Premodern Europe

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From Eurydice to Laura and beyond, dead lovers call forth powerful expressions of grief, sorrow, love, and longing. They occasion mourning and other rituals and seem to be intrinsically bound up with changing ideas of subjecthood itself. Dead Lovers explores the complex attachments to the figure of the dead lover in Western literature, art, and other forms of cultural expression from classical antiquity through the Middle Ages and into the...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:047211560X

ISBN13:9780472115600

Release Date:January 2007

Publisher:University of Michigan Press

Length:180 Pages

Weight:1.41 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.3" x 9.4"

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