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Book SynopsisAnne Carson (b. June 21, 1950, in Toronto, Canada) is one of the most versatile of contemporary classicists, poets and translators in the English language. In this book, Ruprecht explores the role played by generic transgressions on the one hand, and by embodied spirituality on the other, throughout Carson’s ambitious literary career. Where others see classical dichotomies (soul versus body, Classical versus Christian), Carson sees connection. Like Nietzsche before her, Carson decries the image of the Classics as merely bookish, and classicists as disembodied intellects. She has brought religious, bodily erotics back into the heart of the classical tradition.
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Quest for a Genre, or, Where Boundaries Touch Then Blur
Chapter 1. Eros the Bittersweet, or, The Poetics of Desire
Chapter 2. Translation as Criticism, Creation and Conjuring, or, The Musing Scholar
Chapter 3. Poetry, Madness and Markets, or, The Ancients and the Moderns
Chapter 4. Hybrid Genres Between Body and Spirit, or, Righting the Self and Writing God
Conclusion: Dreaming in the Night
Epilogue: Six Questions and an Afterword
Appendix: The Works of Anne Carson
