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 Re-Reading Sappho reflects the recent 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. As the contributors explore the ways that each generation creates its own Sappho, the Sapphic tradition itself becomes an index to changing sensibilities and cultural norms about sexuality, gender roles, and notions of fema le authorship. A legendary literary figure, Sappho has attracted readers, critics, and biographers ever since she composed poems on the island of Lesbos at the close of the seventh century B.C. Bringing together some of the best recent criticism on the subject, this volume, together with Reading Sappho, represents the first anthology of Sappho scholarship, drawing attention to Sappho's importance as a poet and reflecting the diversity of critical approaches in classical and literary scholarship during the last several decades. 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 ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ellen Greene
• Con la collaborazione di: Ellen Greene (Editore), Greene Ellen (Editore)
• Editore: University Of California Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 02.08.1999
• EAN: 9780520206038
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20603-8
• Pagine: 267
• Serie: Re-Reading Sappho; Classics and Contemporary Thought
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; 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