Anne Carson: Antiquity

Laura Jansen is Senior Lecturer in Classics & Comparative Literature at the University of Bristol, UK. She is author of Borges’ Classics: Global Encounters with the Graeco-Roman World (2018), editor of The Roman Paratext: Frame, Texts, Readers (2014), and general editor of the monograph series Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing (Bloomsbury). Her next books are on Italo Calvino: Classics between Science and Literature and Susan Sontag: From Plato’s Cave to Sarajevo.

• Introduction On ‘Anne Carson/Antiquity’ (Laura Jansen, University of Bristol, UK)1. The Beginning of Now (Anna Jackson, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)2. Chimeras: Empty Space and Melting Borders (Phoebe Giannisi, University of Thessaly, Greece)3. Carson for the non-Classicist (Rebecca Kosick, University of Bristol, UK)4. Écriture and the Budding Classicist (Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi, Stanford University, USA)5. Erring and Whatever (Gillian Sze, Montreal, Canada)6. The Gift of Residue (Laura Jansen, University of Bristol, UK)7. Carson Fragment (Sean Gurd, University of Missouri, USA)8. Shades (Elizabeth D. Harvey, University of Toronto, Canada)9. The Paratextual Cosmos (Paschalis Nikolaou, Ionian University, Greece)10. An Essay on An Essay on Irony (Yopie Prins, University of Michigan, USA)11. The Stesichorean Ethos (P. J. Finglass, University of Bristol, UK)12. Cunning Intelligence (Ian Rae, Western University, Canada)13. Mythical Immersions (Vanda Zajko, University of Bristol, UK)14. Deadly Erotic Tangos and Animal Affinity (Hannah Silverblank, Haverford College, USA)15. Poetry and Profit (Ella Haselswerdt, UCLA, USA & Mathura Umachandran, Cornell University, USA)16. More Spectres of Dying Empire (Kay Gabriel, Princeton University, USA)17. Translation, Transcreation, Transgression (Susan Bassnett, Universities of Glasgow and Warwick, UK)18. Translating the Canon, Filling the Absence (Eugenia Nicolaci, University of Bristol, UK)19. Translation Catastrophes: Pinplay (Grace Zanotti, University of Michigan, USA)20. There it Lies Untranslatable (Elena Theodorakopoulos, University of Birmingham, UK)NotesIndexBibliography

For all the nuance and involved detail that abounds, this book is a curiously meditative and even personal read, perhaps due to a prose style that is sometimes playful, sometimes contemplative, but seems as invested in the games of identity, authorship, and allusion as Carson herself.