Sappho and Homer A Reparative Reading

"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"--

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.

Product details

• Authors: Melissa (University of Massachusetts Mueller, Melissa Mueller, Mueller Melissa
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 21.12.2023
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity
• EAN: 9781108491709
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49170-9
• Pages: 256
• Subjects: HISTORY / Ancient / General; Classical history / classical civilisation; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Ancient Greek and Roman literature; c 800 BCE to c 500 CE (Ancient and Classical period – Germany, Central and Eastern Europe)