{"product_id":"anne-carson-the-glass-essayist-9780197813331","title":"Anne Carson: The Glass Essayist","description":"The scholar is transparent and accountable, the poet inward and errant: anyone who reads Anne Carson has to suspend many such separations of power. The first monographic study of her work to date, \u003cem\u003eAnne Carson: The Glass Essayist\u003c\/em\u003e makes the case for the acclaimed poet, classicist, and translator as a remarkable experimental scholar and reader, who rehearses scholarly methods while slipping their constraints of form and emotion. Carson's attention to sources -- ancient and modern, textual or visual -- is one of few constants across almost four decades of her published writing, whose uncertain claims on discipline and genre are claimed here as a certain interpretive style. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book follows Carson's readings through variations in form -- from early academic prose and poems, essays to creative adaptations, and works for performance -- to come to grips with what Coles calls Carson's transparency: not her easiness or literalism, but a taste for the exposure of her presence, process, and intent. Carson's portraits of working perform to readers even where she fantasizes her own erasure; where chance, poetic economy, impersonation, and imitation ride the line of anonymity. Coles situates Carson in a vibrant contemporary conversation around the essay, scholar-poets, and post-critical form, where creation transacts critique, and where roles and prerogatives are reset. Reading Carson as a reader, the book argues, is the most pressing way of reading her \u003cem\u003enow\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Sarah Coles is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge. She is director of \u003cem\u003ePerforming the Lecture\u003c\/em\u003e, a program of experimental lectures hosted by the CCCB, Barcelona, and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where she held a fellowship from 2021 to 2024. Coles is co-editor of \u003cem\u003eWild Analysis\u003c\/em\u003e, which won a Gradiva Award in 2022. \u003cem\u003eAnne Carson: The Glass Essayist\u003c\/em\u003e is her first book.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51705000362258,"sku":"9780197813331","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e00eb82c-4e55-4ca1-b3f5-387442cec0de.jpg?v=1762336003","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/anne-carson-the-glass-essayist-9780197813331","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}