Description
Book SynopsisFrom 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 v
Trade Review
For all the nuance and involved detail that abounds, this book is a curiously meditative and even personal read, perhaps due to a prose style that is sometimes playful, sometimes contemplative, but seems as invested in the games of identity, authorship, and allusion as Carson herself. * Greece and Rome *
This collection proposes and models new and innovative directions for classical reception studies, translation studies, philology, rhetorical studies, even while it opens up Carson’s creative oeuvre to a larger audience (poets, visual artists, performance art, etc.). -- Anett K. Jessop, Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing, University of Texas at Tyler, USA
Table of Contents
Introduction On ‘Anne Carson/Antiquity’ (Laura Jansen, University of Bristol, UK) 1. The Beginning of Now (Anna Jackson, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) 2. Chimeras: Empty Space and Melting Borders (Phoebe Giannisi, University of Thessaly, Greece) 3. Carson for the non-Classicist (Rebecca Kosick, University of Bristol, UK) 4. Écriture and the Budding Classicist (Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi, Stanford University, USA) 5. Erring and Whatever (Gillian Sze, Montreal, Canada) 6. The Gift of Residue (Laura Jansen, University of Bristol, UK) 7. Carson Fragment (Sean Gurd, University of Missouri, USA) 8. Shades (Elizabeth D. Harvey, University of Toronto, Canada) 9. The Paratextual Cosmos (Paschalis Nikolaou, Ionian University, Greece) 10. An Essay on An Essay on Irony (Yopie Prins, University of Michigan, USA) 11. The Stesichorean Ethos (P. J. Finglass, University of Bristol, UK) 12. Cunning Intelligence (Ian Rae, Western University, Canada) 13. Mythical Immersions (Vanda Zajko, University of Bristol, UK) 14. Deadly Erotic Tangos and Animal Affinity (Hannah Silverblank, Haverford College, USA) 15. Poetry and Profit (Ella Haselswerdt, UCLA, USA & Mathura Umachandran, Cornell University, USA) 16. More Spectres of Dying Empire (Kay Gabriel, Princeton University, USA) 17. Translation, Transcreation, Transgression (Susan Bassnett, Universities of Glasgow and Warwick, UK) 18. Translating the Canon, Filling the Absence (Eugenia Nicolaci, University of Bristol, UK) 19. Translation Catastrophes: Pinplay (Grace Zanotti, University of Michigan, USA) 20. There it Lies Untranslatable (Elena Theodorakopoulos, University of Birmingham, UK) Notes Index Bibliography
