Anne Carson

From her seminal <i>Eros the Bittersweet</i> (1986) to her experimental <i>Float</i> (2016) <i>Bakkhai</i> (2017) and <i>Norma Jeane Baker of Troy</i> (2019) Anne Carson's engagement with antiquity has been deeply influential to generations of readers both inside and outside of academia. One reason for her success is the versatile scope of her classically-oriented oeuvre which she rethinks across multiple media and categories. Yet an equally significant reason is her profile as a classicist. In this role Carson unfailingly refuses to conform to the established conventions and situated practices of her discipline in favour of a mode of reading classical literature that allows for interpretative and creative freedom. <br/><br/>From a multi-praxis cross-disciplinary perspective the volume explores the erudite <i>in</i>discipline of Carson's classicism as it emerges in her poetry translations essays and visual artistry. It argues that her classicism is irreducible to a single vision and that it is best approached as integral to the protean character of her artistic thought. <i>Anne Carson/Antiquity</i> collects twenty essays by poets translators artists practitioners and scholars. It<i></i>offers the first collective study of the author's classicism while drawing attention to one of the most avant-garde multifaceted readings of the classical past.