Reach without Grasping
Anne Carson's Classical Desires
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2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-3768-0 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-3768-0 (ISBN)
Reach without Grasping examines the robust engagement with classical Greek and Roman literatures, themes, and genres in the works of Anne Carson, who explores as many and as diverse a range of genre choices as the classical authors from whom she has drawn so richly throughout her enormously creative body of work.
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 Reach without Grasping, Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. 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 images of the Classics as merely bookish and of classicists as disembodied intellects. She has brought religious, bodily erotics back into the heart of the classical tradition.
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 Reach without Grasping, Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. 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 images of the Classics as merely bookish and of classicists as disembodied intellects. She has brought religious, bodily erotics back into the heart of the classical tradition.
Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. is the inaugural William M. Suttles Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Anthropology and director of the Center for Hellenic Studies at Georgia State University.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.08.2023 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Body and Religion |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 349 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7936-3768-7 / 1793637687 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-3768-0 / 9781793637680 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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