Anne Carson: The Glass Essayist

The scene with which I begin this chapter is the kind of scene that interests Carson. In the words of her 'Essay on What I Think About Most' (1999), a disquisition on mistake in stanzas of unrhyming verse, the 'wilful creation of error' is the action of the 'master contriver' - the poet: 'what Aristotle would call an imitator" of reality'. Like the 'true mistakes of poetry', the matter Carson confesses to 'think about most', Streb's choreographed falls perform the conversion of human error into an art form. Under the dancer's regime, and by an extraordinary coup of artifice, the emotions of mistake - shame, exposure, thrill - are handed to us, putting our own contradictions and 'odd longings' centre-stage"--

• | Author: Elizabeth Sarah Coles
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 08, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 344 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0197680917
• | ISBN-13: 9780197680919