Laura Jansen - Anne Carson: Antiquity

Thin voice by Anne Carson.

Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception

Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception presents scholarly monographs offering new and innovative research and debate to students and scholars in the reception of Classical Studies. Each volume will explore the appropriation, reconceptualization and recontextualization of various aspects of the Graeco-Roman world and its culture, looking at the impact of the ancient world on modernity. Research will also cover reception within antiquity, the theory and practice of translation, and reception theory.

Also available in the series:

ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN THE EARLY CHRISTIAN TRADITION: CLASSICAL RECEPTION AND PATRISTIC LITERATURE

by Christian Thrue Djurslev

ANCIENT MAGIC AND THE SUPERNATURAL IN THE MODERN VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS

edited by Filippo Carl and Irene Berti

ANCIENT GREEK MYTH IN WORLD FICTION SINCE 1989

edited by Justine McConnell and Edith Hall

ANTIPODEAN ANTIQUITIES

edited by Marguerite Johnson

CLASSICS IN EXTREMIS

edited by Edmund Richardson

FAULKNERS RECEPTION OF APULEIUS THE GOLDEN ASS IN THE REIVERS

by Vernon L. Provencal

FRANKENSTEIN AND ITS CLASSICS

edited by Jesse Weiner, Benjamin Eldon Stevens and Brett M. Rogers

GREEK AND ROMAN CLASSICS IN THE BRITISH STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL REFORM

edited by Henry Stead and Edith Hall

GREEKS AND ROMANS ON THE LATIN AMERICAN STAGE

edited by Rosa Andjar and Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos

HOMERS ILIAD AND THE TROJAN WAR: DIALOGUES ON TRADITION

by Jan Haywood and Naose Mac Sweeney

IMAGINING XERXES

by Emma Bridges

JULIUS CAESARS SELF-CREATED IMAGE AND ITS DRAMATIC AFTERLIFE

by Miryana Dimitrova

KINAESTHESIA AND CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY 17501820: MOVED BY STONE

by Helen Slaney

Susan Bassnett is a translation theorist and scholar of comparative literature. She served as pro-vice-chancellor at the University of Warwick for ten years and taught in its Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies. As of 2016, she is a Professor of Comparative Literature at the Universities of Glasgow and Warwick. Educated around Europe, she began her career in Italy and has lectured at universities in the United States. In 2007, she was elected a Fellow at the Royal Society of Literature.

P. J. Finglass is Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek at the University of Bristol. He has published a monograph entitled Sophocles (2019) in the series Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics; edited Sophocles Oedipus the King (2018), Ajax (2011) and Electra (2007), Stesichorus Poems (2014) and Pindars Pythian Eleven (2007) in the series Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries; co-edited six books, including (with Adrian Kelly) The Cambridge Companion to Sappho (2021) and Stesichorus in Context (2015) and (with Lyndsay Coo) Female Characters in Fragmentary Greek Tragedy (2020); and edits the journal Classical Quarterly.

Kay Gabriel is a poet, essayist and teacher. With Andrea Abi-Karam, she co-edited We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (2020). Her forthcoming books include Kissing Other People or the House of Fame (2021) and A Queen in Bucks County (2022). She lives in Queens, NY.

Phoebe Giannisi is a poet, architect and scholar at the University of Thessaly. She is the author of seven books of poetry, including (2009), published in German as Homerika (translated by Dirk Uwe Hansen, 2016) and in English as Homerica (translated by Brian Sneeden, 2017), and (2019). She holds a PhD in Classics (Lyon II-Lumire), which she published as Rcits des Voies: Chant et Cheminement en Grce archaque (2008). Her work transverses the borders between poetry and performance, installation, inscription and representation, investigating the poetics of voice and place (http://phoebegiannisi.net/en/).

Sean Gurd is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Missouri. He works at the intersection of aesthetics, media studies and classical philology, with a special interest in music and sound culture. He is the author of three monographs Iphigenias at Aulis: Textual Multiplicity, Radical Philology (2006); Work in Progress: Literary Revision as Social Performance in Ancient Rome (2012); and Dissonance: Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece (2016) and the editor of Philology and its Histories (2010).

Elizabeth D. Harvey is Professor of English at the University of Toronto and a psychoanalyst in private practice. She is the author of Ventriloquized Voices: Feminist Theory and Renaissance Texts (1992), editor of Sensible Flesh: On Touch in Early Modern Culture (2003), has co-edited several collections of essays and has published many essays on early modern literature, the phenomenology of the body, the senses, the emotions and psychoanalysis. She is currently finishing a monograph called John Donnes Physics (with Timothy M. Harrison) and a book on mourning in the writings of Anne Carson.

Ella Haselswerdt is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is currently writing a monograph entitled Epistemologies of Suffering: Tragedy, Trauma, and the Choral Subject. She has also written on the tragic sublime and the dreamscapes of the ancient Greek body, and is engaged in an ongoing project called Deep Lez Philology, an approach to reading Sapphos fragments and queer identity via contemporary art. In 2015 she co-organized a conference at Princeton called Decreations: A Graduate Symposium on the Work of Anne Carson that drew academics, artists and performers from across the US and abroad.

Anna Jackson is a New Zealand poet whose most recent collection of poetry, Pasture and Flock: New and Selected Poems (2018), brings together work from seven books including Catullus for Children (2004) and I, Clodia (2014). She is an Associate Professor in English Literature at Te Herenga Waka/Victoria University of Wellington, with research interests in the Gothic and childrens literature as well as poetry and poetics. Actions and Travels: How Poetry Works (2021) looks at 100 poems, including translations of Sappho by Anne Carson and others (www.annajackson.nz).

Laura Jansen is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Bristol. She is author of Borges Classics: Global Encounters with the Graeco-Roman World (2018), editor of The Roman Paratext: Frame, Texts, Readers (2014) and general editor of the monograph series Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing (Bloomsbury). Her next books are on Italo Calvino: Classics between Science and Literature (Bloomsbury) and Susan Sontag: From Platos Cave to Sarajevo. She is originally from Buenos Aires.

Rebecca Kosick is Senior Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages at the University of Bristol and co-director of the Bristol Poetry Institute. Her work addresses twentieth-century and contemporary poetry and poetics in the American hemisphere. She is the author of