Event overview
Goldsmiths Literature Seminar
Susan Watson
Anne Carson’s narrative poem The Glass Essay is notable for its vivid and searing depiction of the emotional aftermath of the end of a long love affair. This is interwoven with the narrator’s reflections on the Collected Works of Emily Bronte, which she has brought with her to read during a difficult visit to her mother, who lives alone on a moor.
In this paper Susan will examine the many different ways in which Carson uses ideas about the life and work of Emily Bronte to complicate and enrich her narrator’s own story of betrayal and grief. The Glass Essay offers a highly personal reading of Wuthering Heights and the Collected Poems that also draws attention to the way in which Bronte has been ‘edited’ by various readers and critics (not least Carson herself). But the poem does much more than this. In her reading process, Carson’s narrator moves beyond the conventional interpretations of Bronte’s work, taking it as the starting point for her own meditations on confinement, the natural world, and God. Susan will also briefly discuss the ways in which Carson’s writing, and particularly 'The Glass' Essay, has influenced her own writing.
For more info, contact Tanguy Harma
tharm009@gold.ac.uk
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Mar 2015 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm |
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