Love and friendship / Allan Bloom.
"Written with the erudition and wit that made 'The Closing of the American Mind' a #1 best-seller, 'Love and Friendship' is a searching examination of the basic human connections at the center of the greatest works of literature and philosophy throughout the ages. In a spiri...
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New York [New York] ; London [England] ; Toronto [Ontario] ; Sydney [Australia] ; Tokyo [Japan] ; Singapore :
Simon & Schuster,
[1993]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The fall of eros
- Rousseau and the Romantic project. Rousseau ; Stendhal, The red and the black ; Austen, Pride and prejudice ; Flaubert, Madame Bovary ; Tolstoy, Anna Karenina ; Conclusion
- Shakespeare and nature. Introduction ; Romeo and Juliet ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Measure for measure ; Troilus and Cressida ; The winter's tale ; Conclusion
- Interlude on two strange couples : Hal and Falstaff, Montaigne and La Boétie
- The ladder of love
- Epilogue.