Reading Sappho : contemporary approaches

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    • Greene, Ellen

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Reading Sappho : contemporary approaches

edited by Ellen Greene

（Classics and contemporary thought, 2）

University of California Press, c1996

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-286) and index

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ISBN 9780520201958

Description

Reading Sappho considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the Western cultural tradition. Essays are divided into four sections: "Language and Literary Context," "Homer and Oral Tradition", "Ritual and Social Context", and "Women's Erotics". Contributors focus on literary history, mythic traditions, cultural studies, performance studies, recent work in feminist theory, and more. 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 Re-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.
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: pbk ISBN 9780520206014

Description

Reading Sappho considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the Western cultural tradition. Essays are divided into four sections: "Language and Literary Context," "Homer and Oral Tradition", "Ritual and Social Context", and "Women's Erotics". Contributors focus on literary history, mythic traditions, cultural studies, performance studies, recent work in feminist theory, and more. 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 Re-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.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD Thomas Habinek INTRODUCTION Ellen Greene I * LANGUAGE AND LITERARY CONTEXT 1. Sappho's Amatory Language Giuliana Lanata, translated by William Robins 2. Critical Stereotypes and the Poetry of Sappho Mary R. Lefkowitz 3* Phaethon, Sappho's Phaon, and the White Rock of Leukas:"Reading" the Symbols of Greek Lyric Gregory Nagy 4* Eros and Incantation: Sappho and Oral Poetry Charles Segal II * HOMER AND THE ORAL TRADITION 5* Sappho and Helen Page duBois 6. Gardens of Nymphs: Public and Private in Sappho's Lyrics Jack Winkler III * RITUAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT 7* Sappho's Group: An Initiation into Womanhood Claude Calame 8. Sappho and Her Social Context: Sense and Sensuality Judith P. Hallett 9* Romantic Sensuality, Poetic Sense: A Response to Hallett on Sappho Eva Stehle 10. Who Sang Sappho's Songs? Andre Lardinois IV WOMEN'S EROTICS 11. Woman and Language in Archaic Greece, or, Why Is Sappho a Woman? Marilyn B. Skinner I2. Sappho's Gaze: Fantasies of a Goddess and Young Man Eva Stehle 13* The Justice of Aphrodite in Sappho Anne Carson 14. Apostrophe and Women's Erotics in the Poetry of Sappho Ellen Greene 15. Sappho and the Other Woman Margaret Williamson BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTORS INDEX

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