Reading Sappho

Contemporary Approaches
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-520-20601-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 467 g

Reihe: Classics and Contemporary Thought

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greene, Ellen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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