Re-Reading Sappho

Reception and Transmission
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-520-20603-8
Verlag: UCAL POD

Buch, Englisch, 267 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 413 g

Reihe: University of California Press

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greene, Ellen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

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

Über Autor(innen)

Ellen Greene is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Oklahoma.