Reach Without Grasping - Anne Carson''s Classical Desires

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

By Louis A. Ruprecht Jr.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Louis A. Ruprecht, Louis A. Jr. Ruprecht, Ruprecht Louis A.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781793637666
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-766-6
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Studies in Body and Religion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ethics, RELIGION / Ancient, Christianity, Religious ethics, Philosophy of religion, Ancient religions & mythologies