Dead Lovers: Erotic Bonds and the Study of Premodern EuropeBasil Dufallo, Peggy McCracken University of Michigan Press, 2006 - 172 páginas 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 early modern period.
By reflecting on the study of dead lovers, these essays also trace the development of themes and claims relating to our own investment in a “dead” but eroticized past that we seek to recover. The collection offers a sustained discussion of how scholarly interest in the representation of loss and erotic bonds raises pressing questions about nostalgia, performance, the role of affect in intellectual work, and the gendered cultural values that script the description and experience of the erotic. In its focus on loss as a site of affect and imagination, Dead Lovers offers an original and provocative contribution to the history of scholarship.
Basil Dufallo is Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Peggy McCracken is Professor of French and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. |
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... Juana and the beloved dead body of her spouse . Although these accounts are composed of a mix of historical and ... Juana's legendary conjugal loyalty to her husband's beloved cadaver offers a unique point of entry to the mutually ...
... Juana was asserting her rights and fully appropriating the king's body : the Castilian monarch was literally ... Juana's authority as widow- lover - proprietary queen . The sovereign's strategies successfully institutionalized the erotic ...
... Juana's matrimonial identity oscil- late between widowhood and wedlock . Thus , it was the union of love and death in the ephemeral materiality of this beloved dead body that allowed Juana to succeed in her intention . As a ...
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