Anne Carson: The Glass Essayist - Hardcover
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Anne Carson: The Glass Essayist - Hardcover
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by Elizabeth Sarah Coles (Author)
The scholar is transparent and accountable, the poet inward and errant: anyone who reads Anne Carson has to suspend many such separations of power. 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. Carson's attention to sources-ancient and modern, textual or visual-is one of few constants across almost four decades of her published writing, whose uncertain claims on discipline and genre are claimed here as a certain interpretive style.
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.Author Biography
Elizabeth Sarah Coles is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge. She is director of Performing the Lecture, a program of experimental lectures hosted by the CCCB, Barcelona, and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where she held a fellowship from 2021 to 2024. Coles is co-editor of Wild Analysis, which won a Gradiva Award in 2022. Anne Carson: The Glass Essayist is her first book.
Number of Pages: 344
Dimensions: 1.6 x 9 x 6.3 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: September 08, 2023
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