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Author Carson, Anne, 1950-

Title Economy of the unlost : reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan / Anne Carson
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 147 pages)
Series Martin classical lectures. New series
Martin classical lectures (Unnumbered). New series.
Contents False sail -- Alienation -- Visibles invisibles -- Epitaphs -- Negation -- All candled things
Summary 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 commonal
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-143) and index
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Subject Simonides, approximately 556 B.C.-467 B.C. -- Criticism and interpretation
Celan, Paul -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Celan, Paul -- Criticism and interpretation
Simonides, approximately 556-467 B.C. -- Criticism and interpretation
Celan, Paul fast
Simonides, approximately 556 B.C.-467 B.C. fast
Subject Comparative literature -- Greek and German
Comparative literature -- German and Greek
Economics in literature.
Aesthetics.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
POETRY -- Ancient & Classical.
Aesthetics
Comparative literature -- German and Greek
Comparative literature -- Greek and German
Economics in literature
Dichtkunst.
Economische aspecten.
Grieks.
Duits.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 98049984
ISBN 9781400823154
1400823153
1400811198
9781400811199