The Sappho Companion

Author : Margaret Reynolds
Publisher : Random House
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781446413760

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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.

Author : P. J. Finglass,Adrian Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107189058

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The Cambridge Companion to Sappho by P. J. Finglass,Adrian Kelly Pdf

A detailed up-to-date survey of the most important woman writer from Greco-Roman antiquity. Examines the nature and context of her poetic achievement, the transmission, loss and rediscovery of her poetry, and the reception of that poetry in cultures far removed from ancient Greece, including Latin America, India, China, and Japan.

Author : Margaret Reynolds
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0312295103

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The Sappho Companion by Margaret Reynolds Pdf

Born around 630 BC on the Greek Island of Lesbos, Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. 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, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. We see her image change, recreated in Ovid's poetry and Boccaccio's tales, in translations by Pope, Rossetti and Swinburne, Baudelaire, and H.D., in the modern versions of Eavan Boland, Carol Rumens, and Jeanette Winterson. Artists, too, have felt Sappho's power, and the, Companion contains a rich variety of illustrations: classical statues and pre-Raphaelite paintings, Roman mosaics, and Romantic pornography.

Author : Margar Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1446413772

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The Sappho Companion by Margar Reynolds Pdf

Author : M. Reynolds
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1349665428

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The Sappho History by M. Reynolds Pdf

In The Sappho History , Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. For women writers in the Romantic period, she symbolized possibility; for the young Tennyson, she was a private ancestor helping him make his own name as a poet. Richly illustrated throughout, The Sappho History provides a new view of Western culture from the Romantic period to the Modern.

Author : Felix Budelmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521849449

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The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric by Felix Budelmann Pdf

Introduction to this wide-ranging body of poetry, which includes work by such famous poets as Sappho and Pindar.

Author : Douglas E. Gerber
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9004099441

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A Companion to the Greek Lyric Poets by Douglas E. Gerber Pdf

This handbook is a guide to the reading of elegiac, iambic, personal and public poetry of early Greece. Intended as a teaching manual or as an aid for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, it presents the major scholarly debates affecting the reading of these poetic texts, such as the effect of genre, the question of the poetic persona, or the impact of modern literary theory.

Author : Marguerite Johnson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472538666

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Sappho by Marguerite Johnson Pdf

This series of short incisive books introduces major figures of the ancient world to the modern general reader, including the essentials of each subject's life, works, and significance for later western civilisation. In the newly created tradition of the "Ancients in Action" series, Marguerite Johnson has written a fascinating and accessible account of what remains of the life and works of the Greek poet, Sappho. Sappho's ancient biography is covered in addition to the post-classical accounts of her life, which continue to appear, in a variety of creative and non-creative contexts, in contemporary literature and art. Sappho's poetry, essentially preserved in tantalising fragments, is discussed in a series of thematic chapters that include her religious writings, particularly directed to the goddess of love, Aphrodite; personal interpretations of mythological themes; marriage hymns; and love songs to female companions.

Author : Sappho
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0872205916

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Poems and Fragments by Sappho Pdf

Presents a Sappho by a poet and translator that treats the fragments as aesthetic wholes, complete in their fragmentariness, and which is also, as the translator puts it: 'ever mindful of performative qualities, quality of voice, changes of voice...'

Author : Sidney Abbott,Barbara Love
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Lesbianism
ISBN : UVA:X000221710

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Sappho was a Right-on Woman by Sidney Abbott,Barbara Love Pdf

Most material of all, this book begins to fill the terrible need of an entire population of women, until now not only persecuted and ignored, but deprived of any reasonable account of themselves and the sufferings imposed on them by a hostile society.

Author : Harriette Andreadis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226020088

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Sappho in Early Modern England by Harriette Andreadis Pdf

In Sappho in Early Modern England, Harriette Andreadis examines public and private expressions of female same-sex sexuality in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Before the language of modern sexual identities developed, a variety of discourses in both literary and extraliterary texts began to form a lexicon of female intimacy. Looking at accounts of non-normative female sexualities in travel narratives, anatomies, and even marital advice books, Andreadis outlines the vernacular through which a female same-sex erotics first entered verbal consciousness. She finds that "respectable" women of the middle classes and aristocracy who did not wish to identify themselves as sexually transgressive developed new vocabularies to describe their desires; women that we might call bisexual or lesbian, referred to in their day as tribades, fricatrices, or "rubsters," emerged in erotic discourses that allowed them to acknowledge their sexuality and still evade disapproval.

Author : Sarah Dowling
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 47,8 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.

Author : K. R. Moore
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000626193

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The Routledge Companion to the Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Gender and Sexuality by K. R. Moore Pdf

This Companion covers a range of receptions of ancient Greek and Roman gender and sexuality. It explores ancient representations of these concepts as we define them today, as well as recent perspectives that have been projected back onto antiquity. Beginning in antiquity, the chapters examine how the ancient Greeks and Romans regarded concepts of what we would today call "gender" and "sexuality" based on the evidence available to us, and chart the varied interpretations and receptions of these concepts across time to the present day. In exploring how different cultures have "received" the classical past, the volume investigates these cultures’ different interpretations of Greek and Roman sexualities, and what these interpretations can reveal about their own attitudes. Through the contributions in this book, the reader gains a deeper understanding of this essential part of human existence, derived from influential sources. From ancient to modern and postmodern perspectives, from cinematic productions to TikTok videos, receptions of ancient gender and sexuality abound. This volume is of interest to students and scholars of ancient history, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, and ancient societies, as well as those working on popular culture and gender studies more broadly.

Author : Ellen Greene,Marilyn B. Skinner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Aging in literature
ISBN : 0674032950

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The New Sappho on Old Age by Ellen Greene,Marilyn B. Skinner Pdf

This is the first collection of essays in English devoted to discussion of a newly recovered Sappho poem and two other incomplete texts on the same papyri. The contributions demonstrate how the "New Sappho" can be appreciated as a complete, gracefully spare poetic statement regarding the painful inevitability of death and aging.

Author : Ellen Greene
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520918061

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Reading Sappho by Ellen Greene Pdf

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.