Re-Reading Sappho - Reception and Transmission

Informationen zum Autor Ellen Greene is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Oklahoma. Klappentext This and Reading Sappho are the first anthologies devoted to the scholarly study of Sappho. Zusammenfassung This volume reflects on the late-1990s fascination with Sappho's "afterlife". The essays examine the changing interpretations of scholars and writers who have read the fragmentary remains of Sappho's poetry. Inhaltsverzeichnis ACKNOWLEDGMENTS SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD  Thomas Habinek INTRODUCTION  Ellen Greene 1. Reflecting Sappho  Glenn W. Most 2. Sappho's Afterlife in Translation  Yopie Prins 3· Sappho's Splintered Tongue:Silence in Sappho 31 and Catullus  Dolores O'Higgins 4· Ventriloquizing Sappho, or the Lesbian Muse  Elizabeth D. Harvey 5· Sappho in Early Modern England:A Study in Sexual Reputation  Harriette Andreadis 6. Sex and Philology:Sappho and the Rise of German Nationalism  Joan DeJean 7· Sappho Schoolmistress  Holt N Parker 8. H.D. and Sappho: "A Precious Inch of Palimpsest"  Erika Rohrbach 9. Sapphistries  Susan Gubar 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: 9780520206038
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20603-8
• No. of pages: 267
• Series: Re-Reading Sappho; Classics and Contemporary Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative 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