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| Author | Anne Carson |
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| Language | English |
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| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Publication date | 1986 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Awards | Modern Library: 100 Best Nonfiction Books (Reader's List) |
| ISBN | 9780608027401 |
Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay (1986) is the first book of criticism by the Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and classicist Anne Carson.
A reworking of her 1981 doctoral thesis Odi et Amo Ergo Sum ("I Hate and I Love, Therefore I Am"),[1] Eros the Bittersweet "laid the groundwork for her subsequent publications, […] formulating the ideas on desire that would come to dominate her poetic output",[2] and establishing her "style of patterning her writings after classical Greek literature".[3]
- ^ Carson, Anne (1981). Odi et Amo Ergo Sum. Toronto: University of Toronto. [Doctoral thesis; under the name Anne Carson Giacomelli]
- ^ Rae, Ian (27 December 2001). "Anne Carson". The Literary Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
- ^ "Anne Carson". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 14 September 2020.