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Blog: “Can We Strangle the Muse?”: Carson and Bruno’s The Trojan Women
By Christopher Trinacty, Emma Glen, and Emily Hudson (Oberlin College) Anne Carson’s celebrated adaptations and translations of Ancient Greek and Latin literature have ranged from imagining the love affair between Geryon and Heracles in The Autobiography of Red to meditating about the death of her brother through Catullus 101 in Nox. In our opinion, Carson’s works highlight her theoretical sophistication as well as her deep commitment to the reception of Classics broadly understood. This new “comic” version of Euripides’ Trojan Women by Carson and illustrator Rosanna Bruno offers a creative and challenging take on Euripides’s tragedy. Carson’s literary career has Read more … |