Re-Reading Sappho: Reception and Transmission / Edition 1

by Ellen Greene

Overview

Re-Reading Sappho reflects the recent fascination with Sappho's "afterlife." The essays examine the changing interpretations of scholars and writers who have read the fragmentary remains of Sappho's poetry. As the contributors explore the ways that each generation creates its own Sappho, the Sapphic tradition itself becomes an index to changing sensibilities and cultural norms about sexuality, gender roles, and notions of fema le authorship.

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 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520206038
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	08/02/1999
Series:	Classics and Contemporary Thought , #3
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	267
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Ellen Greene is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Oklahoma.

Table of Contents

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