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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... tion , imagined in the present and projected into the past . Of course Sap- pho has always been a figment of the literary imagination . Invoked as a lyric muse in antiquity and mythologized for posterity by Ovid , Sappho entered into ...
... tion — as well as other forms of disjunction , hiatus , and ellipsis — suggests why Sappho became exemplary of lyric in its irreducibly textual embod- iment , and exemplary of lyric reading as well , in its desire to hypothesize a ...
... tion of the Sapphic fragments in England . This desire to reconstruct Sap- pho led to the definitive edition of Poetarum Lesbiorum Fragmenta in 1955 by Edgar Lobel and Denys Page , displacing German philology with the authority of ...
... tion , but a set of texts gathered in her name " ( 3 ) . Nevertheless the figure of voice continues to haunt this invocation of Sappho , as if the texts " gath- ered in her name " might be recollected as a disembodied voice if not a ...
... tion , or to embody postmodern fragmentation , or to affirm lesbian iden- tity , but what these readings have in common is a ( re ) turn to Sappho as an exemplary , engendering figure for the reading of lyric . In Victorian Sappho I ...
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