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The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
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Award-winning Canadian poet, prose writer, translator, and classicist Anne Carson (b. 1950) on translation, from a 2001 discussion with Brighde Mullin for the Lannan Foundation.
Carson describes how her approach to translation changes based on the purpose of the project. She compares her “kind of wacky” translations of... See more
instagram.comThe Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (Modern Library Classics)
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social engagement to sustain democracy, people’s shared exercise of power. All of these essentials of social life are jeopardized by contemporary cultural trends which damage communication and prioritize self-interest.
Jen Harvie • Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism (Performance Interventions)
Don’t Major in English: And Other Bad Advice from the World
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The dream of a Liberal (arts) education—which is the scaled, democratic form of the Keatsian ideal of negative capability—cannot hold up when liberalism itself is held to be suspect.