LEADER 05172nam 2200937 a 450 001 9910455220503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4008-0111-7 010 $a1-4008-1119-8 010 $a1-282-15816-3 010 $a9786612158162 010 $a1-4008-2315-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400823154 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788486 035 $a(EBL)457760 035 $a(OCoLC)614689036 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000143831 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11149834 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000143831 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10119095 035 $a(PQKB)10280666 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000143830 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11160422 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000143830 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10120843 035 $a(PQKB)11207274 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457760 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36167 035 $a(DE-B1597)446272 035 $a(OCoLC)1002233588 035 $a(OCoLC)1004868071 035 $a(OCoLC)1011439530 035 $a(OCoLC)1024036770 035 $a(OCoLC)1029827888 035 $a(OCoLC)1032692969 035 $a(OCoLC)979749206 035 $a(OCoLC)984657260 035 $a(OCoLC)987921988 035 $a(OCoLC)992527636 035 $a(OCoLC)999360081 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400823154 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457760 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10035823 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215816 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788486 100 $a19981029d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEconomy of the unlost$b[electronic resource] $ereading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan /$fAnne Carson 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (156 p.) 225 1 $aMartin classical lectures. New series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-03677-2 311 $a0-691-09175-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 135-143) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tNote on Method --$tPROLOGUE. False Sail --$tChapter I. Alienation --$tChapter II. Visibles Invisibles --$tChapter III. Epitaphs --$tChapter IV. Negation --$tEpilogue. All Candled Things --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe 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. In Carson's view Simonides and Celan share a similar mentality or disposition toward the world, language and the work of the poet. Economy of the Unlost begins by showing how each of the two poets stands in a state of alienation between two worlds. In Simonides' case, the gift economy of fifth-century b.c. Greece was giving way to one based on money and commodities, while Celan's life spanned pre- and post-Holocaust worlds, and he himself, writing in German, became estranged from his native language. Carson goes on to consider various aspects of the two poets' techniques for coming to grips with the invisible through the visible world. A focus on the genre of the epitaph grants insights into the kinds of exchange the poets envision between the living and the dead. Assessing the impact on Simonidean composition of the material fact of inscription on stone, Carson suggests that a need for brevity influenced the exactitude and clarity of Simonides' style, and proposes a comparison with Celan's interest in the "negative design" of printmaking: both poets, though in different ways, employ a kind of negative image making, cutting away all that is superfluous. This book's juxtaposition of the two poets illuminates their differences--Simonides' fundamental faith in the power of the word, Celan's ultimate despair--as well as their similarities; it provides fertile ground for the virtuosic interplay of Carson's scholarship and her poetic sensibility. 410 0$aMartin classical lectures (Unnumbered).$nNew series. 606 $aComparative literature$xGreek and German 606 $aComparative literature$xGerman and Greek 606 $aEconomics in literature 606 $aAesthetics 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aComparative literature$xGreek and German. 615 0$aComparative literature$xGerman and Greek. 615 0$aEconomics in literature. 615 0$aAesthetics. 676 $a884/.01 700 $aCarson$b Anne$f1950-$0494928 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455220503321 996 $aEconomy of the unlost$92461302 997 $aUNINA