Victorian Sappho
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Victorian Sappho
（Princeton paperbacks）
Princeton University Press, c1999
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-267) and indexes
内容説明・目次
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: hbk ISBN 9780691059181
内容説明
What is Sappho, except a name? Although the Greek archaic lyrics attributed to Sappho of Lesbos survive only in fragments, she has been invoked for many centuries as the original woman poet, singing at the origins of a Western lyric tradition. This text traces the emergence of this idealized feminine figure through reconstructions of the Sapphic fragments in late-19th-century England. The author argues that the Victorian period is a critical turning point in the history of Sappho's reception; what we now call "Sappho" is in many ways an artifact of Victorian poetics. The author reads the Sapphic fragments in Greek alongside various English translations and imitations, considering a wide range of Victorian poets - male and female, famous and forgotten - who signed their poetry in the name of Sappho. By "declining" the name in each chapter, the book presents a theoretical argument about the Sapphic signature, as well as a historical account of its implications in Victorian England. The text explores the relations between classical philology and Victorian poetics, the tropes of lesbian writing, the aesthetics of meter, and 19th century personificatios of the "Poetess".
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: pbk ISBN 9780691059198
内容説明
What is Sappho, except a name? Although the Greek archaic lyrics attributed to Sappho of Lesbos survive only in fragments, she has been invoked for many centuries as the original woman poet, singing at the origins of a Western lyric tradition. Victorian Sappho traces the emergence of this idealized feminine figure through reconstructions of the Sapphic fragments in late-nineteenth-century England. Yopie Prins argues that the Victorian period is a critical turning point in the history of Sappho's reception; what we now call "Sappho" is in many ways an artifact of Victorian poetics. Prins reads the Sapphic fragments in Greek alongside various English translations and imitations, considering a wide range of Victorian poets--male and female, famous and forgotten--who signed their poetry in the name of Sappho. By "declining" the name in each chapter, the book presents a theoretical argument about the Sapphic signature, as well as a historical account of its implications in Victorian England. Prins explores the relations between classical philology and Victorian poetics, the tropes of lesbian writing, the aesthetics of meter, and nineteenth-century personifications of the "Poetess." as current scholarship on Sappho and her afterlife.
Offering a history and theory of lyric as a gendered literary form, the book is an exciting and original contribution to Victorian studies, classical studies, comparative literature, and women's studies.
目次
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Declining a Name31Sappho's Broken Tongue232Sappho Doubled: Michael Field743Swinburne's Sapphic Sublime1124P.S. Sappho174Conclusion: Epitaph246Works Cited253Index of Sapphic Fragments and Testimonia269General Index271
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