Re-reading Sappho : reception and transmission
One of two volumes drawing attention to Sappho's relevance as a poet, this text examines the changing interpretations of scholars and writers who have read the remains of Sappho's poetry, and considers this in context of changing sensibilities and cultural norms about gender and female authorship.
Print Book, English, 1996
University of California Press, Berkeley, 1996
Aufsatzsammlung
xiii, 254 pages ; 24 cm.
9780520206021, 9780520206038, 9780585160320, 0520206029, 0520206037, 0585160325
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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