1# Library to Find Best eBook for Read
Author : Ellen Greene
Release : 1996
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 038/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Re-Reading Sappho by : Ellen Greene
Download or read book Re-Reading Sappho written by Ellen Greene. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume review the seemingly endless permutations wrought on Sappho through centuries of readings and re-writings.
Author : Ellen Greene
Release : 2023-07-28
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 061/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reading Sappho by : Ellen Greene
Download or read book Reading Sappho written by Ellen Greene. This book was released on 2023-07-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
Release : 2009-06-03
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 346/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Among Women by : Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
Download or read book Among Women written by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz. This book was released on 2009-06-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's and men's worlds were largely separate in ancient Mediterranean societies, and, in consequence, many women's deepest personal relationships were with other women. Yet relatively little scholarly or popular attention has focused on women's relationships in antiquity, in contrast to recent interest in the relationships between men in ancient Greece and Rome. The essays in this book seek to close this gap by exploring a wide variety of textual and archaeological evidence for women's homosocial and homoerotic relationships from prehistoric Greece to fifth-century CE Egypt. Drawing on developments in feminist theory, gay and lesbian studies, and queer theory, as well as traditional textual and art historical methods, the contributors to this volume examine representations of women's lives with other women, their friendships, and sexual subjectivity. They present new interpretations of the evidence offered by the literary works of Sappho, Ovid, and Lucian; Bronze Age frescoes and Greek vase painting, funerary reliefs, and other artistic representations; and Egyptian legal documents.
Author : Sappho
Release : 2002-01-01
Genre : Poetry
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 918/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Poems and Fragments by : Sappho
Download or read book Poems and Fragments written by Sappho. This book was released on 2002-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Sarah Dowling
Release : 2020-10-06
Genre : Poetry
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 511/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Entering Sappho by : Sarah Dowling
Download or read book Entering Sappho written by Sarah Dowling. This book was released on 2020-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
