Reading Sappho - Contemporary Approaches

Informationen zum Autor Ellen Greene is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Oklahoma. Klappentext This and Re-Reading Saphho are the first anthologies devoted to scholarly study of Sappho. Zusammenfassung This volume considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the western cultural tradition. Contributors focus on literary history, mythic traditions, cultural studies, performance studies, recent work in feminist theory, and more. Inhaltsverzeichnis ACKNOWLEDGMENTS  SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD  Thomas Habinek INTRODUCTION  Ellen Greene I · LANGUAGE AND LITERARY CONTEXT 1. Sappho's Amatory Language  Giuliana Lanata, translated by William Robins 2. Critical Stereotypes and the Poetry of Sappho  Mary R. Lefkowitz 3· Phaethon, Sappho's Phaon, and the White Rock of Leukas:"Reading" the Symbols of Greek Lyric  Gregory Nagy 4· Eros and Incantation: Sappho and Oral Poetry  Charles Segal II · HOMER AND THE ORAL TRADITION 5· Sappho and Helen  Page duBois 6. Gardens of Nymphs: Public and Private in Sappho's Lyrics  Jack Winkler III · RITUAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT 7· Sappho's Group: An Initiation into Womanhood  Claude Calame 8. Sappho and Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality  Judith P. Hallett 9· Romantic Sensuality, Poetic Sense: A Response to Hallett on Sappho  Eva Stehle 10. Who Sang Sappho's Songs?  Andre Lardinois IV WOMEN'S EROTICS 11. Woman and Language in Archaic Greece, or, Why Is Sappho a Woman?  Marilyn B. Skinner I2. Sappho's Gaze: Fantasies of a Goddess and Young Man  Eva Stehle 13· The Justice of Aphrodite in Sappho  Anne Carson 14. Apostrophe and Women's Erotics in the Poetry of Sappho  Ellen Greene 15. Sappho and the Other Woman  Margaret Williamson BIBLIOGRAPHY  CONTRIBUTORS  INDEX ...

Product details

• Authors: Ellen Greene
• Assisted by: Ellen Greene (Editor), Greene Ellen (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.08.1999
• EAN: 9780520206014
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20601-4
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Classics and Contemporary Thought; Classics and Contemporary Thou; Classics and Contemporary Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Greece, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Greek Islands, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form