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Economy of the Unlost: (Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan)
Anne Carson
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Paperback. Offers a reading of certain of Simonides' texts and aligns these with writings of the modern Romanian poet Paul Celan. Asking such questions as, What is lost when words are wasted? and Who profits when words are saved? This work reveals the two poets' striking commonalities. Series: Martin Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 160 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 234 x 12. Weight in Grams: 258.
The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting point, Anne Carson launches an exploration, poetic in its own right, of the idea of poetic economy. She offers a reading of certain of Simonides' texts and aligns these with writings of the modern Romanian poet Paul Celan, a Jew and survivor of the Holocaust, whose economies of language are notorious. Asking such questions as, What is lost when words are wasted? and Who profits when words are saved? Carson reveals the two ... Read more
The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting point, Anne Carson launches an exploration, poetic in its own right, of the idea of poetic economy. She offers a reading of certain of Simonides' texts and aligns these with writings of the modern Romanian poet Paul Celan, a Jew and survivor of the Holocaust, whose economies of language are notorious. Asking such questions as, What is lost when words are wasted? and Who profits when words are saved? Carson reveals the two ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Series
Martin Classical Lectures
Condition
New
Weight
257g
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691091754
SKU
V9780691091754
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About Anne Carson
Anne Carson is a poet, essayist, and scholar of classics. She is the author of Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay (Princeton) and Autobiography of Red; A Novel in Verse (Knopf).
Reviews for Economy of the Unlost: (Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan)
Erudite and entertaining, effortlessly able to play across a range of associations, the book traces a number of similarities in artistic approach between two writers who would seem, on the face of it, to have inhabited very different worlds ... Economy of the Unlost is a beguiling piece of work, both scholarly and persuasive.
Elizabeth Lowry, London Review of Books ... Read more
Elizabeth Lowry, London Review of Books ... Read more