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After Sappho

Author : Selby Wynn Schwartz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1324094478

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After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz Pdf

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE A Guardian Best Book of the Year A New York Times Editors' Choice Selection "A work of stirring genius, a catalogue of intimacies and inventions, desires and dreams." --Jacob Brogan, Washington Post An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at the turn of the twentieth century.

After Sappho: A Novel

Author : Selby Wynn Schwartz
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781324092322

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After Sappho: A Novel by Selby Wynn Schwartz Pdf

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE A Guardian Best Book of the Year A New York Times Editors' Choice Selection “A work of stirring genius, a catalogue of intimacies and inventions, desires and dreams." —Jacob Brogan, Washington Post An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at the turn of the twentieth century. “The first thing we did was change our names. We were going to be Sappho,” so begins this intrepid debut novel, centuries after the Greek poet penned her lyric verse. Ignited by the same muse, a myriad of women break from their small, predetermined lives for seemingly disparate paths: in 1892, Rina Faccio trades her needlepoint for a pen; in 1902, Romaine Brooks sails for Capri with nothing but her clotted paintbrushes; and in 1923, Virginia Woolf writes: “I want to make life fuller and fuller.” Writing in cascading vignettes, Selby Wynn Schwartz spins an invigorating tale of women whose narratives converge and splinter as they forge queer identities and claim the right to their own lives. A luminous meditation on creativity, education, and identity, After Sappho announces a writer as ingenious as the trailblazers of our past. “This book is splendid: Impish, irate, deep, courageous. . . . Brava!”—Lucy Ellmann, author of Ducks, Newburyport

Entering Sappho

Author : Sarah Dowling
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781770566514

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Entering Sappho by Sarah Dowling Pdf

An abandoned town named for the classical lesbian leads to questions about history and settlement. Driving along the Pacific Coast Highway, you come to a road sign: Entering Sappho. Nothing remains of the town, just trash at the side of the highway and thick, wet bush. Can Sappho’s breathless eroticism tell us anything about settlement—about why we’re here in front of this sign? Mixing historical documents, oral histories, and experimental translations of the original lesbian poet’s works, this book combines documentary and speculation, surveying a century in reverse. This town is one of many with a classical name. Take it as a symbol: perhaps in a place that no longer exists, another kind of future might be possible.

Sappho

Author : Jane McIntosh Snyder,Camille-Yvette Welsch
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
ISBN : 9781438148434

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Sappho by Jane McIntosh Snyder,Camille-Yvette Welsch Pdf

A biography of the ancient Greek poet Sappho who live around 610 to 580 B.C.E. on the island of Lesbos. Though little remains of Sappho's works, her poems are believed to explore the theme of significant love between women.

Sappho

Author : Page DuBois
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857739858

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Sappho by Page DuBois Pdf

Sappho has been constructed as many things: proto-feminist, lesbian icon and even - by the Victorians - chaste headmistress of a girls' finishing school. Yet ironically, as Page DuBois shows, the historical poet herself remains elusive. We know that Sappho's contemporary Alcaeus described her as 'violet, pure, honey-smiling Sappho'; and that the rhetorician and philosopher Maximus of Tyre saw her, perhaps less enthusiastically, as 'small and dark'. We also know that her 7th/6th century BCE island of Lesbos was riven by tyrannical and aristocratic factionalism and that she was probably exiled to Sicily. Much of the rest is speculative. DuBois suggests that the value of Sappho lies elsewhere: in her remarkable verse, and in the poet's reception - one of the richest of any figure from antiquity. Offering nuanced readings of the poems, written in an archaic Aeolic dialect, DuBois skillfully draws out their sharp images and rhythmic melody. She further discusses the exciting discovery of a new verse fragment in 2004, and the ways in which Sappho influenced Catullus, Horace and Ovid, as well as later writers and painters.

Roman Receptions of Sappho

Author : Thea S. Thorsen,Stephen Harrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192564825

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Roman Receptions of Sappho by Thea S. Thorsen,Stephen Harrison Pdf

Sappho, a towering figure in Western culture, is an exemplary case in the history of classical receptions. There are three prominent reasons for this. Firstly, Sappho is associated with some of the earliest poetry in the classical tradition, which makes her reception history one of the longest we know of. Furthermore, Sappho's poetry promotes ideologically challenging concepts such as female authority and homoeroticism, which have prompted very conspicuous interpretative strategies to deal with issues of gender and sexuality, revealing the values of the societies that have received her works through time. Finally, Sappho's legacy has been very well explored from the perspective of reception studies: important investigations have been made into responses both to her as poet-figure and to her poetry from her earliest reception through to our own time. However, one of the few eras in Sappho's longstanding reception history that has not been systematically explored before this volume is the Roman period. The omission is a paradox. Receptions of Sappho can be traced in more than eighteen Roman poets, among them many of the most central authors in the history of Latin literature. Surely, few other Greek poets can rival the impact of Sappho at Rome. This important fact calls out for a systematic approach to Sappho's Roman reception, which is the aim of Roman Receptions of Sappho that focuses on the poetry of the central period of Roman literary history, from the time of Lucretius to that of Martial.

A Study Guide for Sappho's "Fragment 2"

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410346438

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A Study Guide for Sappho's "Fragment 2" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Sappho's "Fragment 2," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

The Sappho Companion

Author : Margaret Reynolds
Publisher : Random House
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781446413760

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The Sappho Companion by Margaret Reynolds Pdf

Born around 630BC on the Greek island of Lesbos, Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of ancient Greece, ironic and passionate, capturing the troubled depths of love. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story and her sexuality.This remarkable anthology brilliantly displays the way different periods have taken up Sappho's haunting story bringing together many different kinds of work. We see her image change, re-created in Ovid's poetry and Boccaccio's tales, in translations by Pope, Rossetti and Swinburne, Baudelaire, in the modern versions of Eavan Boland, Ruth Padel and Jeanette Winterson.

Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet

Author : Philip Freeman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393242249

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Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet by Philip Freeman Pdf

An exploration of the fascinating poetry, life, and world of Sappho, including a complete translation of all her poems. For more than twenty-five centuries, all that the world knew of the poems of Sappho—the first woman writer in literary history—were a few brief quotations preserved by ancient male authors. Yet those meager remains showed such power and genius that they captured the imagination of readers through the ages. But within the last century, dozens of new pieces of her poetry have been found written on crumbling papyrus or carved on broken pottery buried in the sands of Egypt. As recently as 2014, yet another discovery of a missing poem created a media stir around the world. The poems of Sappho reveal a remarkable woman who lived on the Greek island of Lesbos during the vibrant age of the birth of western science, art, and philosophy. Sappho was the daughter of an aristocratic family, a wife, a devoted mother, a lover of women, and one of the greatest writers of her own or any age. Nonetheless, although most people have heard of Sappho, the story of her lost poems and the lives of the ancient women they celebrate has never been told for a general audience. Searching for Sappho is the exciting tale of the rediscovery of Sappho’s poetry and of the woman and world they reveal.

Sappho and her influence

Author : David M. Robinson
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547094999

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Sappho and her influence by David M. Robinson Pdf

"Sappho and her influence" by David Moore Robinson is a book that aims to look at one of the most enigmatic but important figures in history, particularly feminist history. Sappho was a poet who would never know the influence her work would have on future generations. Thanks to Robinsons, however, the rest of the world can see how important of a figure she truly was and is.

The Newest Sappho: P. Sapph. Obbink and P. GC inv. 105, Frs. 1-4

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004314832

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The Newest Sappho: P. Sapph. Obbink and P. GC inv. 105, Frs. 1-4 by Anonim Pdf

Retraction Notice: Postscript (March, 2021): The Publisher notifies the readers that Chapter 2 of this volume (Dirk Obbink, “Ten Poems of Sappho: Provenance, Authenticity, and Text of the New Sappho Papyri”) has been retracted. For more information please view the statement by the editors in the Retraction Notice in the front matter of this volume and on page 9 of the Introduction. The reasons for this retraction include the serious doubts that have been raised in the years following the publication of this edited volume about the provenance of the newest Sappho papyri (P. Sapph. Obbink and P GC. inv.105). In The Newest Sappho Anton Bierl and André Lardinois have edited 21 papers of world-renowned Sappho scholars dealing with the new papyrus fragments of Sappho that were published in 2014. This set of papyrus fragments, the greatest find of Sappho fragments since the beginning of the 20th century, provides significant new readings and additions to five previously known songs of Sappho (frs. 5, 9, 16, 17 and 18), as well as the remains of four previously unknown songs, including the new Brothers Song and the Kypris Song. The contributors discuss the content of these poems as well as the consequence they have for our understanding of Sappho’s life and work.

Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics

Author : Bliss Carman
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547247890

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Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics by Bliss Carman Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics" by Bliss Carman. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Victorian Sappho

Author : Yopie Prins
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691222158

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Victorian Sappho by Yopie Prins Pdf

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. Prins reads the Sapphic fragments in Greek alongside various English translations and imitations, considering a wide range of Victorian poets--male and female, famous and forgotten--who signed their poetry in the name of Sappho. By "declining" the name in each chapter, the book presents a theoretical argument about the Sapphic signature, as well as a historical account of its implications in Victorian England. Prins explores the relations between classical philology and Victorian poetics, the tropes of lesbian writing, the aesthetics of meter, and nineteenth-century personifications of the "Poetess." as current scholarship on Sappho and her afterlife. Offering a history and theory of lyric as a gendered literary form, the book is an exciting and original contribution to Victorian studies, classical studies, comparative literature, and women's studies.

Re-Reading Sappho

Author : Ellen Greene
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0520206037

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Re-Reading Sappho by Ellen Greene Pdf

The essays in this volume review the seemingly endless permutations wrought on Sappho through centuries of readings and re-writings.

The Complete Poems of Sappho

Author : Willis Barnstone
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0834822008

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The Complete Poems of Sappho by Willis Barnstone Pdf

Sappho’s thrilling lyric verse has been unremittingly popular for more than 2,600 years—certainly a record for poetry of any kind—and love for her art only increases as time goes on. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of fragments and a handful of complete poems, her mystique endures to be discovered anew by each generation, and to inspire new efforts at bringing the spirit of her Greek words faithfully into English. In the past, translators have taken two basic approaches to Sappho: either very literally translating only the words in the fragments, or taking the liberty of reconstructing the missing parts. Willis Barnstone has taken a middle course, in which he remains faithful to the words of the fragments, only very judiciously filling in a word or phrase in cases where the meaning is obvious. This edition includes extensive notes and a special section of "Testimonia": appreciations of Sappho in the words of ancient writers from Plato to Plutarch. Also included are a glossary of all the figures mentioned in the poems, and suggestions for further reading.