Poetics of Tenderness

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"This book, a literary-critical work on love, argues that romantic love originates neither in the gratification of appetite nor in the sexual drive, but in the nurturing relation of caregiver and child. When we, distinguish between self and other, love engages our aesthetic and analytic capacities together to recognize and to create the beloved"--

subjects: Love in literature,  Sex in literature,  Sex (psychology),  Love,  Psychological aspects,  Tenderness (Psychology),  Nurturing behavior