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 poems, 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.
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
344 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Oxford University Press Inc |
| Utgivningsdatum |
2025-08-18 |
| ISBN |
9780197813331 |
