An exploration of Anne Carson's
The Glass Essay in the book:
Edited ByBruce Barnhart, Marit Grøtta
Routledge
ISBN: 9781003328599
The book includes the chapter:
This chapter explores the figure of ritual through a focus on the ritual dimension of lyric poetry and its temporal workings in Anne Carson’s poem “The Glass Essay.” Carson’s poem portrays ritualistic acts performed by its poetic personae, but it also sets to work a ritualistic, lyric temporality arising in the act of reading. The poem’s mobilizing
of a ritualistic present brings together different temporalities: The speaker of the poem engages with the life and work of Emily Brontë, but also with the affective rhythms of the reader’s presence. The chapter reads these overlapping temporalities by way of a dialog with Roland Greene’s and Jonathan Culler’s work on lyric poetry. Ritualistic reading, contemplation, and watchful waiting are found to work in the poem as defiantly creative acts that clear time and space through focused attention and presence, suspending and dislocating the strong direction and flow of ordinary time. The chapter argues that the ritualistic qualities in Carson’s poem invert relations between past, present, and future as well as inside and outside, and that the poem ultimately aspires toward repeated, engaged reading, potentially leading readers to renewing temporal experiences and perspectives.
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