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"Juxtaposing Sappho and Homer within the embrace of a non-hierarchical, "reparative reading" culture, as first conceived by queer theorist and poet Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, this book reintroduces readers to a Sappho who supplements Homer's vision, allowing for a sustaining, collaborative way of reading both lyric and epic"--
List of contents
Introduction: A Colicky Muse; Part I. Reparative Reading: 1. Reparative Intertextualities: Sappho and Homer Between Lesbos and Troy; 2. Sappho and Sedgwick as Reparative Readers; Part II. Sappho and Homer: 3. Plaiting and Poikilia: the Materialities of Sappho's Craft; 4. Aphrodite and the Poetics of Shame; 5. In the Bardo with Tithonos; 6. Sappho fr. 44V, or Andromache's 'No Future' Wedding Song; 7. Sappho's Third Alternative: Helen and the Queering of Epic Desire; 8. Sapphic Remembering, Lyric Kleos; Epilogue: Homer's Night, Sappho's Day; Appendix: On the Absence of the newest Sappho fragments from this book.
About the author
MELISSA MUELLER is Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Objects as Actors: Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy (2016), co-editor of The Materialities of Greek Tragedy: Objects and Affect in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (2018), and series co-editor of Ancient Cultures, New Materialisms for Edinburgh University Press.
