Anne Carson Essays
Anne Carson's Translations of Sappho: A Dialogue with the Past? College
Anne Carson: Translations
‘I started getting interested in the language, in trying to get through the opaque screen that a translation can’t help being to see what Seneca had actually said’ (CARYL CHURCHILL on her translation of Thyestes).
Translations of a text that has...
The Doomed Seedling: Antigonick as Rendition of the Fate Vs. Free Will Debate in Antigone College
Antigonick
The Fate Vs. Free Will debate has long been adapted within literary texts, but Anne Carson’s Antigonick puts a spin on it by transforming it to be a debate between two texts. Antigonick is an adapted version of Sophocles’ Antigone, which tells the...