Reach without Grasping
Anne Carson's Classical Desires
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Lexington Books
Published:17th Nov '21
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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.
ISBN: 9781793637666
Dimensions: 227mm x 161mm x 22mm
Weight: 590g
220 pages