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An Oresteia translated by Anne Carson by Anne Carson; Aiskhylos; Sophokles; Euripides
24.00 AUD
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Reading Level: very good
In this innovative rendition of "The Oresteia", the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions - Aischylos' 'Agamemnon', Sophokles' 'Elektra', and Euripides' 'Orestes' - giving birth to a wholly new experience of the classic Greek triumvirate of vengeance. After the murd ...Show more
Antigone by Anne Carson
17.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Oberon Classics
When her dead brother is decreed a traitor, his body left unburied beyond the city walls, Antigone refuses to accept this most severe of punishments. Defying her uncle who governs, she dares to say 'No'. Forging ahead with a funeral alone, she places personal allegiance before politics, a tenacious act ...Show more
Autobiography Of Red by Anne Carson
37.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Cape Poetry S.
The winged red monster Geryon's story is a mixture of whimsy and sadness. He is tormented as a boy by his brother, escapes to a parallel world of photography, and falls in love with Herakles - a golden young man who leaves Geryon at the peak of infatuation. This is an epic poem.
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
This is a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon. Tormented as a boy by his brother, Geryon escapes to a parallel world of photography. He falls deeply in love with Herakles, a golden young man, who deserts him at the peak of infatuation. So Geryon retreats ever further into ...Show more
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson
32.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present. Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his ...Show more
Decreation by Anne Carson
39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson contemplates 'decreation' -an activity described by Simone Weil as 'undoing the creature in us' -an undoing of self. But how can we undo self without moving through self, to the very inside of its definition? Where else can we start?Anne Carson's Decrea ...Show more
Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Epigrammatic, witty, ironic, and endlessly interesting, Eros is an utterly original book by an author whose acclaim has been steadily growing since the book was first published in 1986 by Johns Hopkins.
Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson
27.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials Ser.
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of eros in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet.' No one ...Show more
Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay by Anne Carson
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Princeton Classics Ser.
Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern Library Anne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic love Since it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on love in ancient Greek literature and philosophy, has ...Show more
Float by Anne Carson
39.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
"Anne Carson dazzles us, book after book, with her inventiveness, her ranging imagination, and the way her work utterly changes our perspectives. With Float, she goes further still: exploring myth and memory, beauty and loss, all the while playing with - and pushing - the limits of language and form. W ...Show more
Glass and God by Anne Carson
42.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Cape Poetry Ser.
'The most exciting poet writing in English today' - Michael OndaatjeAnne Carson' s first full-length publication in Britain, Glass and God introduces an assured and challenging new voice- vivid, laconic, precise. Her 'Short Talks' are about everything from Sylvia Plath to Franz Kafka, from waterproofing ...Show more
H of H Playbook by Anne Carson (Illustrator)
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Category: Poetry
'Fans of Anne Carson, rejoice!... Carson's depth of knowledge about Greek mythology coupled with her poetic sensibility and illustrations is sure to breathe new life into this oft-told story.' Lit HubH of H Playbook is an explosion of thought, in drawings and language, about a Greek tragedy called Herak ...Show more