Description
From her seminal Eros the Bittersweet (1986) to her experimental Float (2016), Bakkhai (2017) and Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (2019), Anne Carson's engagement with antiquity has been deeply influential to generations of readers, both inside and outside of academia. One reason for her success is the versatile scope of her classically-oriented oeuvre, which she rethinks across multiple media and categories. Yet an equally significant reason is her profile as a classicist. In this role, Carson unfailingly refuses to conform to the established conventions and situated practices of her discipline, in favour of a mode of reading classical literature that allows for interpretative and creative freedom.
From a multi-praxis, cross-disciplinary perspective, the volume explores the erudite indiscipline of Carson's classicism as it emerges in her poetry, translations, essays, and visual artistry. It argues that her classicism is irreducible to a single vision, and that it is best approached as integral to the protean character of her artistic thought. Anne Carson/Antiquity collects twenty essays by poets, translators, artists, practitioners and scholars. Itoffers the first collective study of the author's classicism, while drawing attention to one of the most avant-garde, multifaceted readings of the classical past.
Author: Laura Jansen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 05/18/2023
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.66d
ISBN13: 9781350256071
ISBN10: 1350256072
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval
- Literary Criticism | Canadian
- Art | Individual Artists | General
From a multi-praxis, cross-disciplinary perspective, the volume explores the erudite indiscipline of Carson's classicism as it emerges in her poetry, translations, essays, and visual artistry. It argues that her classicism is irreducible to a single vision, and that it is best approached as integral to the protean character of her artistic thought. Anne Carson/Antiquity collects twenty essays by poets, translators, artists, practitioners and scholars. Itoffers the first collective study of the author's classicism, while drawing attention to one of the most avant-garde, multifaceted readings of the classical past.
Author: Laura Jansen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 05/18/2023
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.66d
ISBN13: 9781350256071
ISBN10: 1350256072
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval
- Literary Criticism | Canadian
- Art | Individual Artists | General
About the Author
Laura Jansen is Senior Lecturer in Classics & Comparative Literature at the University of Bristol, UK. She is author of Borges' Classics: Global Encounters with the Graeco-Roman World (2018), editor of The Roman Paratext: Frame, Texts, Readers (2014), and general editor of the monograph series Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing (Bloomsbury). Her next books are on Italo Calvino: Classics between Science and Literature and Susan Sontag: From Plato's Cave to Sarajevo.