Economy of the unlost
reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan
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Author
Publication
1999 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J, New Jersey
Language
English
Word Count
36,750 words, Guess
Page Count
147 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL387161M
- ISBN-100691036772
- OCLC Control Number40256006
- OCLC Control Numbereconomyofunlostr0000cars
- Library of Congress Control Number98049984
and 2 more
- LibraryThing161626
- Goodreads1219999
Classifications
- DDC884/.01
- LCCPA4411 .C37 1999
Description
"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 poets' striking commonalities."--BOOK JACKET.
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Series Statement
- Martin classical lectures. New series
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