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| Author | : Ellen Greene |
| File Size | : 47,9 Mb |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 03 May 1996 |
| ISBN | : 0520206037 |
| Pages | : 276 pages |
The essays in this volume review the seemingly endless permutations wrought on Sappho through centuries of readings and re-writings.
The essays in this volume review the seemingly endless permutations wrought on Sappho through centuries of readings and re-writings.
Get BookThe essays in this volume review the seemingly endless permutations wrought on Sappho through centuries of readings and re-writings.
Get BookReading Sappho considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the Western cultural tradition. Essays are divided into four sections: "Language and Literary Context," "Homer and Oral Tradition", "Ritual and Social Context", and "Women's Erotics". Contributors focus on literary history, mythic traditions, cultural studies, performance studies, recent work in
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Get BookSappho has been constructed as many things: proto-feminist, lesbian icon and even - by the Victorians - chaste headmistress of a girls' finishing school. Yet ironically, as Page DuBois shows, the historical poet herself remains elusive. We know that Sappho's contemporary Alcaeus described her as 'violet, pure, honey-smiling Sappho'; and
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