Love's Shadow

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Format: Hardback Length: 464 pages Publication date: 29 January 2021 Publisher: Harvard University Press It is no wonder literary criticism is so sullen. It is too philosophical, t oo much indebted to the dour Walter Benjamin, wedded to aestheticized helplessness. Lit crit needs new inspirations: the sober cheer of Wallace Stevens; the loving eye of Rembrandt; romance, melodrama, and wit. Let there be more poetry, Paul Bove says, and less cynicism. Weight: 724g Dimension: 242 x 162 x 40 (mm) ISBN-13: 9780674977150 Show more