%0 Journal Article
%T Metaphor as Self-Discovery in Anne Carson¡¯s Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
%A S¨¦bastien DUCASSE
%J E-rea : Revue ¨¦lectronique d¡¯¨¦tudes sur le Monde Anglophone
%D 2007
%I 
%R 10.4000/erea.190
%X In the gap between what one wants to say (or what one perceives there is to say) and what one can say (what is sayable), words provide for a collaboration and a desertion. We delight in our sensuous involvement with the materials of language, we long to join words to the world- to close the gap between ourselves and things- and we suffer from doubt and anxiety because of our inability to do so. (Lyn Hejinian The Language of Inquiry)Anne Carson is a contemporary Canadian poet, essayist and tra...
%U http://erea.revues.org/190