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Anne Carson (b. June 21, 1950, in Toronto, Canada) is one of the
most versatile of contemporary classicists, poets and translators
in the English language. In this book, Ruprecht explores the role
played by generic transgressions on the one hand, and by embodied
spirituality on the other, throughout Carson's ambitious literary
career. Where others see classical dichotomies (soul versus body,
Classical versus Christian), Carson sees connection. Like Nietzsche
before her, Carson decries the image of the Classics as merely
bookish, and classicists as disembodied intellects. She has brought
religious, bodily erotics back into the heart of the classical
tradition.
Antoine Chrysostome Quatremere de Quincy (1755-1849) was the most
important Neoclassical art historian in the generation after Johann
Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768). It is difficult now to appreciate
his importance, due in part to the lack of translations of his 21
published books: three were rendered into English in the 19th
century, and one in the 21st. The Moral Considerations has long
been considered the most shattering polemic against public museums
ever written. But I will show that Quatremere's polemic was aimed,
not against museums per se, but rather against the imperialist and
secularist curatorial purposes of Parisian museums in the age of
Revolution. His Neoclassical commitments maintained the centrality
of religion, and of incarnation, to any proper understanding of the
place and purpose of the fine arts.
Father Matthew Kelty was an especially beloved monk at the historic
Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. Perhaps best known as Thomas
Merton's colleague and confessor in the year prior to Merton's
death, Father Matthew was also an enormously gifted spiritual
writer in his own right, one whose homilies at Gethsemani attracted
a wide following. This is the first book-length study of Matthew
Kelty's life in relation to his spiritual writings and his profound
reflections on the virtues of the monastic life in the modern age.
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