Laura Jansen is Senior Lecturer in Classics & Comparative Literature at the University of Bristol, UK. She is author of Borges’ Classics: Global Encounters with the Graeco-Roman World (2018), editor of The Roman Paratext: Frame, Texts, Readers (2014), and general editor of the monograph series Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing (Bloomsbury). Her next books are on Italo Calvino: Classics between Science and Literature and Susan Sontag: From Plato’s Cave to Sarajevo.
For all the nuance and involved detail that abounds, this book is a curiously meditative and even personal read, perhaps due to a prose style that is sometimes playful, sometimes contemplative, but seems as invested in the games of identity, authorship, and allusion as Carson herself. * Greece and Rome * This collection proposes and models new and innovative directions for classical reception studies, translation studies, philology, rhetorical studies, even while it opens up Carson’s creative oeuvre to a larger audience (poets, visual artists, performance art, etc.). -- Anett K. Jessop, Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing, University of Texas at Tyler, USA