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Reach without Grasping

Anne Carson's Classical Desires

Reach without Grasping

Anne Carson's Classical Desires

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN: 9781793637666
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 17/11/2021
Width: 16.1 cm
Height: 22.7 cm

Anne 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.

Preface

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

Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr.

Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. is the inaugural William M. Suttles Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Georgia State University.