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Eros in Mourning begins with a reading of the Iliad which shows how Homer, not yet influenced by the ideology of transcendence, analyzes the structure of unassaugeable mourning in a way that is as up-to-date as the latest poststructuralism. Then, in readings of the Gospel of John, Dante, the troubadours, Petrarch, Hamlet, Paradise Lost, La Princess de Clèves, and Heart of Darkness, Staten shows how literary history may be reconstituted in terms of a poetics of mourning that keeps in sight the traditional problematic of mortal and transcendent eros. Finally, a reading of Lacan suggests that this writer--so profoundly influential today on the question of desire--must be understood in the context of the dialectic of mourning that dominates his work. [publisher's description]

Begeerte in de literatuur --- Desire in literature --- Deuil--Coutumes dans la littérature --- Désir dans la littérature --- Loss (Psychology) in literature --- Mourning customs in literature --- Perte (Psychologie) dans la littérature --- Rouwgebruiken in de literatuur --- Verlies (Psychologie) in de literatuur --- Literature --- -Loss (Psychology) in literature --- Grief in literature --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- History and criticism --- -Theory, etc --- Desire in literature. --- Grief in literature. --- Loss (Psychology) in literature. --- Theory, etc. --- Mourning in literature. --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- Literature History and criticism --- Lamentations --- Pleurs --- Desir dans la litterature --- Mort dans la litterature --- Litterature --- Histoire et critique --- Theorie, etc.