Erothanatos (E-ISSN 2457-0265) is an interdisciplinary, double-blind peer-reviewed literary journal that explores the intersections of literature, philosophy, cultural studies, and critical theory. Established with a vision to foreground voices that challenge conventional narratives, the journal is committed to publishing original, thought-provoking scholarship that delves into the complexities of human experience, artistic expression, and socio-political realities amidst the conflict between Eros and Thanatos — life and death, desire and dissolution — as enduring metaphors of human imagination.
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Erothanatos: A Peer-Reviewed Quarterly Journal on Literature
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Theme Overview
From myth to modernity, from the tragic stage to the fragmented screen, the dialectic of Eros and Thanatos—Life and Death—has remained one of the most profound and recurring motifs in human imagination. To commemorate the 10th year of Erothanatos, the issue seeks to revisit and reinterpret this perennial tension between vitality and mortality, creation and dissolution, desire and negation.
The theme invites explorations into how writers, artists, and thinkers negotiate the paradox of existence: the drive to live, love, and create that is always shadowed by an awareness of decay and death. How does Eros sustain meaning in the face of Thanatos? Can the aesthetic or erotic impulse redeem the inevitability of death—or does it, paradoxically, stem from it?
E-ISSN: 2457-0265
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