Economy of the unlost
Subtitle: reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan
By: Anne Carson.
Series: Martin classical lectures. New series
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
Subjects: Simonides, ca. 556-467 B.C. -- Criticism and interpretation; Celan, Paul -- Criticism and interpretation; Literature, Comparative -- Greek and German; Literature, Comparative -- German and Greek; Economics in literature; Aesthetics
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-143) and index.