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Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre
Joshua Marie Wilkinson, editor
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Anne Carson's works re-think genre in some of the most unusual and nuanced ways that few writers ever attempt, from her lyric essays, enigmatic poems, and novels in verse to further forays into video and comics and collaborative performance. Carson's pathbreaking translations of Ancient Greek poetry and drama, as well as her scholarship on everything from Sappho to Celan, only continue to demonstrate the unique vision she has for what's possible for a work of literature to become.
Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre is the first book of essays dedicated to the breadth of Anne Carson's works, individually, spanning from Eros the Bittersweet through Red Doc. With contributions from Kazim Ali, Dan Beachy-Quick, Julie Carr, Harmony Holiday, Cole Swensen, Eleni Sikelianos, and many others (including translators, poets, essayists, scholars, novelists, critics, and collaborators themselves), we learn from Carson's greatest admirers and closest readers about the books that moved and inspired them.
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Anne Carson’s Stereoscopic Poetics
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What Kind of Monster Am I?
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Living on the Edge: The Bittersweet Place of Poetry
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Reading Carson Reading Brontë RE: The Soul’s Difficult Sexual Destiny
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The Gender of Sound: No Witness, No Words (or Song)?
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On Anne Carson’s Short Talks
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How Is a Pilgrim Like a Soldier? Anne Carson’s “Kinds of Water: An Essay on the Road to Compostela”
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The Unbearable Withness of Being: On Anne Carson’s Plainwater
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The Pilgrim and the Anthropologist
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Masters of the Open Secret: Meditations on Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red
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Who Can a Monster Blame for Being Red? Three Fragments on the Academic and the “Other” in Autobiography of Red
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“Some Affluence”: Reading Wallace Stevens with Anne Carson’s Economy of the Unlost
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To Gesture at Absence: A Reading-With
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“Parts of Time Fall on Her”: Anne Carson’s Men in the Off Hours
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Lacuna Is for Reign
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The Light of This Wound: Marriage, Longing, Desire in Anne Carson’s The Beauty of the Husband
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Who with Her Tears Soaks Mortal Streaming: Anne Carson and Wonderwater
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Antagonistic Collaborations, Tender Questions: On Anne Carson’s Answer Scars / Roni Horn’s Wonderwater
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Opera Povera: Decreation, an Opera in Three Parts
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“To Undo the Creature”: The Paradox of Writing in Anne Carson’s Decreation
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No Video: On Anne Carson
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X inside an X
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Sentences on Nox
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Your Soul Is Blowing Apart: Antigonick and the Influence of Collaborative Process
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“Standing in / the Nick of Time”: Antigonick in Seven Short Takes
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What’s So Funny about Antigonick?
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From Geryon to G: Anne Carson’s Red Doc> and the Avatar
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An Antipoem That Condenses Everything: Anne Carson’s Translations of the Fragments of Sappho
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Sappho and the “Papyrological Event”
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Bringing the House Down: Trojan Horses and Other Malware in Anne Carson’s Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
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Lessons in Grief and Corruption: Anne Carson’s Translations of Euripides
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The “Dread Work” of Lyric: Anne Carson’s An Oresteia
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Collaborating on Decreation: An Interview with Anne Carson
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Contributors
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Published: 2015
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-07253-8 (hardcover)
- 978-0-472-05253-0 (paper)
- 978-0-472-12090-1 (ebook)