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Reach without Grasping

Anne Carson's Classical Desires
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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.
Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. is the inaugural William M. Suttles Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Anthropology 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
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