Anne Carson: Antiquity

Laura Jansen, Laura Jansen

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic
• Année: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781350174764
• Édition: 1
• Sujet: Literature
• Sous-sujet: Ancient & Classical Literary Collections

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 in discipline 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. It offers 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.

Table des matières

• Cover page
• Picture
• Halftitle page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• CONTENTS
• FIGURES
• CONTRIBUTORS
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• TIMELINE OF ANNE CARSON’S WORKS AND DISTINCTIONS
• INTRODUCTION: ON ANNE CARSON/ANTIQUITY
• CHAPTER 1 THE BEGINNING OF NOW
• CHAPTER 2 CHIMERAS: EMPTY SPACE AND MELTING BORDERS
• CHAPTER 3 CARSON FOR THE NON-CLASSICIST
• CHAPTER 4 ÉCRITURE AND THE BUDDING CLASSICIST
• CHAPTER 5 ERRING AND WHATEVER
• CHAPTER 6 THE GIFT OF RESIDUE
• CHAPTER 7 CARSON FRAGMENT
• CHAPTER 8 SHADES
• CHAPTER 9 THE PARATEXTUAL COSMOS
• CHAPTER 10 AN ESSAY ON AN ESSAY ON IRONY
• CHAPTER 11 THE STESICHOREAN ETHOS
• CHAPTER 12 CUNNING INTELLIGENCE
• CHAPTER 13 MYTHOPOETIC IMMERSIONS
• CHAPTER 14 DEADLY EROTIC TANGOS AND ANIMAL AFFINITY1
• CHAPTER 15 POETRY AND PROFIT
• CHAPTER 16 MORE SPECTRES OF DYING EMPIRE
• CHAPTER 17 TRANSLATION, TRANSCREATION, TRANSGRESSION
• CHAPTER 18 TRANSLATING THE CANON, FILLING THE ABSENCE
• CHAPTER 19 TRANSLATION CATASTROPHES: PINPLAY
• CHAPTER 20 THERE IT LIES UNTRANSLATABLE
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX OF TERMS
• INDEX OF TEXTUAL REFERENCES