Anne Carson
A Short Introduction
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Anne Carson
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Dr. Craig Hannaway
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Anne Carson is one of North America's most successful poets as well as being an essayist, translator, and professor of classics. She calls herself a "maker" in the ancient Greek sense. Originally from Canada, Carson has taught at Princeton University and Bard College. She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow' and in 2000' she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
Her work can be famously difficult to understand and has produced many, sometimes-contradictory interpretations, including in popular culture. (Her book Eros the Bittersweet was discussed by two characters in TV's The L Word).
This book attempts to give the listener a key into her work by tracing some of its most important patterns of form and meaning. It is aimed mainly at undergraduate students but should also be useful to graduate students and the general listener who wants to understand how Carson's work develops a particular set of obsessions and how her creative vision changes over time.
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The last chapter has something of the tone of an introduction about it but as a listener I was road weary by then.
The technical side of the production is no better. The sound recording is of poor quality and seems to attempt to create the impression that the book is a recording of a talk given to an engaged audience. This unconvincing illusion is propped up by the ham-fisted addition of canned laughter and riotous applause at the end. The audio edits are badly hacked.
Money and time wasted. In my view a conventional introduction to the Greek classics and mythology would serve any reader of Carson much better.
More a disapproving critique than an introduction.
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