Author : Margaret Reynolds
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 28,2 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This work combines representations of Sappho through the ages, in art and literature, from fragments of her own writing to the present-day. It offers narrative accounts of the way different periods have interpreted Sappho's haunting story, from Ovid's poetry and classical statues to Roman mosaics.
Author : P. J. Finglass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 15,68 MB
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1107189055
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 : Margar Reynolds
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 2010-12-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781446413777
Author : M. Reynolds
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 37,20 MB
Release : 2003-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349665426
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 : 46,91 MB
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521849446
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 : 49,7 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004099449
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 : Sarah Dowling
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 44,87 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1770566511
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 : Jonathan Freedman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 22,48 MB
Release : 1998-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139825364
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James provides a critical introduction to James's work. Throughout the major critical shifts of the last fifty years, and despite suspicions of the traditional high literary culture which was James's milieu, he has retained a powerful hold on readers and critics alike. All essays are written at a level free from technical jargon, designed to promote accessibility to the study of James and his work.
Author : Richard Bales
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 28,96 MB
Release : 2001-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139826115
The Cambridge Companion to Proust, first published in 2001, aims to provide a broad account of the major features of Marcel Proust's great work A la recherche du temps perdu (1913–27). The specially commissioned essays, by acknowledged experts on Proust, address a wide range of issues relating to his work. Progressing from background and biographical material, the chapters investigate such essential areas as the composition of the novel, its social dimension, the language in which it is couched, its intellectual parameters, its humour, its analytical profundity and its wide appeal and influence. Particular emphasis is placed on illustrating the discussion of issues by frequent recourse to textual quotation (in both French and English) and close analysis. This is the only contributory volume of its kind on Proust currently available. Together with its supportive material, a detailed chronology and bibliography, it will be of interest to scholars and students alike.
Author : Ellen Greene
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Aging in literature
ISBN : 9780674032958
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.
