The Gender of Sound
2.990 kr.Human history is filled with unacceptable sounds: high-pitched voices, gossip, talkativeness, hysteria, wailing and ritual shouts. Who makes them? Those deviant from or deficient in the masculine ideal of self-control: women, catamites, eunuchs and androgynes all fall into this category.
From the myths of antiquity to Margaret Thatcher via Sigmund Freud and Gertrude Stein, The Gender of Sound charts the gendering of sound in Western culture. Carson invites us to listen again, and in doing so to reimagine our conceptions of human order, virtue and selfhood.
Putting a door on the female mouth has been an important project of patriarchal culture from antiquity to the present day. Its chief tactic is an ideological association of female sound with monstrosity, disorder and death.
Albertine-æfingarnar
4.790 kr.„3. Sjálf er Albertine viðstödd eða nefnd á nafn á 807
blaðsíðum sögunnar.
4. Á ríflega nítján prósentum þessara blaðsíðna er
hún sofandi.“
Albertine er ein dularfyllsta persóna Í leit að glötuðum tíma eftir Marcel Proust. Hún er ástmey sögumannsins, tákn fyrir þrá, afbrýðisemi og eignarhald. En hver er hún í raun?
Í þessu rómaða verki nálgast Anne Carson spurninguna með sínum hárbeitta stíl. Hugleiðingar, orðaleikir, vangaveltur og húmor – hér ægir öllu saman. Albertine-æfingarnar varpa óvæntu ljósi á Proust en ekki síður á flókið samband listar, ástar og valds.
Anne Carson er kanadískt-íslenskt skáld, rithöfundur og fræðimaður, heimsþekkt fyrir einstaka blöndu fræðilegrar texta og tilraunakennds skáldskapar. Verk hennar flétta saman gríska og rómverska menningu, samtímabókmenntir og ljóðlist og einkennast af skarpri innsýn í ást, langanir og ranghala tungumálsins. Meðal þekktustu bóka hennar eru Ævisaga Rauðs, Nox og Fegurð eiginmannsins. Hún hefur hlotið fjölda verðlauna og er eitt virtasta skáld samtímans.
The Beauty Of The Husband
4.690 kr.Since Glass and God, which was her first full-length collection published in Britain and which was nominated for the 1998 Forward Prize, Anne Carson has published a book a year to extraordinary critical acclaim. Her last two volumes, Autobiography of Red and Men in the Off Hours were both shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and she has received numerous North American awards, including the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship.
In her brilliant new book, she tells a single story. A long-time love, now a crumbling marriage, unfolds in 29 ‘tangos’ of narrative verse, informed by the romanticism of Keats, the wisdom of the classical world and, most importatnly, by Carson’s own unique sensibility.
The unnamed narrator – sometimes ‘I’, sometimes ‘the wife’ – speaks of the man she calls only ‘the husband’, illuminating moments that are by turn sensual, erotic, painful and heartbreaking. The Beauty of the Husband is a work that explores these oldest of lyrical subjects – beauty, desire, love, betrayal – with freshness and devastating power.
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN‘S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
If Not, Winter: Fragments Of Sappho
4.690 kr.The definitive complete translation of Sappho, by one of the world’s greatest living poetsNot much is known about Sappho, the great poetess of Ancient Greece. Her relationships, her queerness, her family, her death – all these details are hazy, lost to time. Likewise, of the nine scrolls of lyrics Sappho is said to have composed during her life on the island of Lebsos, only one poem has survived complete – the rest are fragments.
In If Not, Winter, Anne Carson has collected and translated all the surviving fragments of Sappho’s verse. With the original Greek parallel to each poem, Carson leaves brackets and white space to signal the gaps where text has been lost to time – allowing us to imagine the poems as they were written. With her singular style and extensive translator’s notes, Carson pieces together the voice of Sappho. And through her, Sappho’s reflections on love and desire, suitors and rivals, goddesses and daughters, echo through millennia.