Victorian SapphoPrinceton University Press, 08.03.1999 - 279 Seiten 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. |
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... ment : " When I use the proper name ' Sappho ' I mean only the voice in the fragments attributed to her , only the assembly of poems assigned to her name . She is not a person , not even a character in a drama or a fic- tion , but a set ...
... ment 65 , for example , six letters slip through the ellipses to spell out " Sap- pho , " as follows : .. ] ... a [ . ] ρομε . ] . ελασ [ · ροτήννεμε [ Ψάπφοι , σε φίλ Κύπρωι β [ α ] σίλ [ καίτοι μέλα δ . [ ὄ ] σσοις φαέθων [ πάνται ...
... ment : Sappho's tongue is broken , disarticulating a speaking subject even as it is also said to emerge . The repetition of the break nevertheless makes fragment 31 an exemplary lyric , I argue , and the most frequently trans- lated ...
... ment , both then and now . The identification of , and with , Sappho as a " lesbian " figure is per- formed in yet another way by Algernon Charles Swinburne . The succes de scandale of his early Sapphic imitations encouraged readers to ...
... ment does expand from chapter to chapter , however . In the first chapter , I place a single text within the context of a single book : after reading frag- ment 31 in theoretical terms , I show how this logic of lyric reading is writ ...
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