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Anne Carson

BornJune 21, 1950 (1950-06-21) (age 57)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
OccupationPoet
NationalityCanadian

Anne Carson (June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and a professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. Events 524 - Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. Nationality is a relationship between a Person and their State of Origin, Culture, association Affiliation and/or Loyalty Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Events 524 - Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" An essay is usually a short piece of writing It is often written from an author's personal point of view. Translation is the interpreting of the meaning of a text and the subsequent production of an equivalent text likewise called a " translation The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies "Classical literature" redirects here For literature in Classical languages outside the Graeco-Roman sphere see Ancient literature. Comparative literature (sometimes abbreviated "Comp lit" is critical scholarship dealing with the Literature of two or more different Linguistic The University of Michigan Ann Arbor ( U of M, U-M, UM or simply Michigan) is a top-ranked Coeducational public research Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University. Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec Reticent about her private life, the biography published in current editions of her books is titled, Anne Carson lives in Canada.

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Life and work

Though distinguished, Carson's academic training did not run a straight path. The fascination with classical literature which dominates her work began to take root in high school. There, a Latin instructor introduced her to the world and language of Ancient Greece and tutored the future poet privately [1]. Enrolling at St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto, she left twice--at the end of her first and second years. The University of St Michael's College (USMC, often referred to as St This article is about the University of Toronto's St George Campus Carson, disconcerted by curricular constraints (particularly by a required course on Milton), retired to the world of graphic arts for a short time [2]. She did eventually return to the University of Toronto where she completed her B. A. in 1974, her M. A. in 1975 and her Ph. D. in 1981 [3].

A professor of the classics, with background in classical languages, comparative literature, anthropology, history, and commercial art, Carson blends ideas and themes from many fields in her writing. A classical language, is a language with a Literature that is "classical"&mdashie "it should be ancient it should be an independent tradition that arose mostly Anthropology (/ˌænθɹəˈpɒlədʒi/ from Greek grc ἄνθρωπος anthrōpos, "human" -λογία -logia) is the study of Commercial art is a subsector of Creative services, and refers to Art created for commercial purposes primarily Advertising. She frequently references, modernizes, and translates Greek mythology. Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and Heroes the nature of the world and the origins and significance She has published ten books as of 2006, all of which blend the forms of poetry, essay, prose, criticism, translation, dramatic dialogue, fiction, and non-fiction. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. An essay is usually a short piece of writing It is often written from an author's personal point of view. For the Wikipedia guideline regarding editing articles see WikipediaManual of Style. The word critic comes from the Greek el κριτικός ( el-Latn kritikós) "able to discern" which in turn derives from the word Translation is the interpreting of the meaning of a text and the subsequent production of an equivalent text likewise called a " translation Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real More specifically fiction is an imaginative form of Narrative, one of the four basic Rhetorical modes. Non-fiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as Fact.

Anne Carson was an Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, for Fall 2007. The American Academy in Berlin is a Non-partisan academic institution in Berlin.

Classic Stage Company (New York based theatre company) will produce three of Carson's translations: Aeschulyus' AGAMEMNON; Sophocles' ELECTRA; and Euripides' ORESTES (as The Oresteia), in repertory, in the 2008/2009 season.

Selected works

Odi et Amo Ergo Sum, PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, 1986.

Selected awards and honors

External links

References

  1. ^ Anne Carson, online biography. The Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University. New Directions Publishing Corp was founded in 1936 by James Laughlin, then a Harvard University sophomore Alfred A Knopf Inc is a New York publishing house founded by Alfred A Autobiography of Red (1998 is a Verse novel by Anne Carson, based loosely on the myth of Geryon and the Tenth Labor of Herakles Paul Celan (ˈpaʊl tseˈlaːn November 23, 1920 – approximately April 20, 1970) was the most frequently used Pseudonym of Sappho (ˈsæfoʊ in English Attic Greek el Σαπφώ sapːʰɔː Aeolic Greek el Ψάπφω) was an Ancient Greek lyric Roni Horn (1955-) is an American visual artist and writer She was born in New York in 1955 and lives and works in New York Euripides ( Ancient Greek:) (ca 480 BC–406 BC was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens (the other two being Aeschylus New York Review Books Classics is a series of titles released under the publishing imprint New York Review Books. The Lannan Literary Awards are a series of awards and literary fellowships given out in various fields by the Lannan Foundation The Pushcart Prize is a prestigious American Literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry short fiction essays or literary whatnot" published Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship (sometimes Nicknamed the "genius grant") is an award given by the John D The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada 's most generous poetry award. The T S Eliot Prize for Poetry is awarded by the Poetry Book Society to "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland"
  2. ^ Anne Carson, online biography.
  3. ^ University of Toronto Magazine.


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NAMECarson, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTIONCanadian poet
DATE OF BIRTHJune 21, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTHToronto, Ontario, Canada
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
Events 524 - Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page
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