Anne Carson : the glass essayist / Elizabeth Sarah Coles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coles, Elizabeth Sarah, 1983- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carson, Anne, 1950---Criticism and interpretation.

Carson, Anne.

Carson, Anne, 1950-.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 329 pages : illustration ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"The first monographic study of her work to date, Anne Carson: The Glass Essayist makes the case for the acclaimed poet, classicist, and translator as a remarkable experimental scholar and reader, who rehearses scholarly methods while slipping their constraints of form and emotion. The book follows Carson's readings through variations in form-from early academic prose and poem-essays to creative adaptations and works for performance-to come to grips with what Coles calls Carson's transparency: not her easiness or literalism, but a taste for the exposure of her presence, process, and intent. Carson's portraits of working perform to readers even where she fantasizes her own erasure; where chance, poetic economy, impersonation, and imitation ride the line of anonymity. Coles situates Carson in a vibrant contemporary conversation around the essay, scholar-poets, and post-critical form, where creation transacts critique, and where roles and prerogatives are reset. Reading Carson as a reader, the book argues, is the most pressing way of reading her now."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The eros variations

Criticism and the gift : (Carson with Celan)

On not being Emily Brontë

Lyric transparency and the "fictional essay"

Decreation, or the art of disappearance

Fake women

Grief lessons : (two stories of translation)

Sappho in the open

Short-talking.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Coles, Elizabeth Sarah. Anne Carson

ISBN:

9780197680919

0197680917

OCLC:

1376341589