Considering Sappho as a creature of translation and interpretation, a figment whose features have changed with social mores and aesthetics, Joan DeJean constructs a fascinating history of the sexual politics of literary reception. The association of Sappho with female homosexuality has made her a particularly compelling and yet problematic subject of literary speculation; and in the responses of different cultures to the challenge the poet presents, DeJean finds evidence of the standards imposed on female sexuality through the ages. She focuses largely though not exclusively on the French tradition, where the Sapphic presence is especially pervasive. Tracing re-creations of Sappho through translation and fiction from the mid-sixteenth century to the period just prior to World War II, DeJean shows how these renderings reflect the fantasies and anxieties of each writer as well as the mentalité of his or her day.
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Key figures in our theoretical modernity-most prominently Freud, Levi-Strauss, and Irigaray-have given us essentially the same vision of the foundation of the sociocultural order: a band of young men shapes itself into an ordered assembly through the formulation of rules to govern the exchange of women. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sapphic speculation, original woman writer, sapphic fictions, ideal love tradition, archetypal woman writer, sexually pitiable woman, chastity theory, poetic bonding, sapphic vision, fifteenth epistle, fictive epistles, sapphic eroticism, papyri discoveries, female abandonment, novelistic order, lettres amoureuses, erotic configuration, femmes damnées, sexual biography, precursor poet, suicidal leap, homosexual reading, triangular desire, female signature, modern recovery Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Billardon de Sauvigny, World War, Ovid's Sappho, French Sapphic, Moutonnet de Clairfons, Blin de Sainmore, German Hellenists, French Hellenists, Lord Nelvil, French Sappho, San Giovanni, Tanneguy Le Fèvre, Virgin Mary, Allier de Hauteroche, Barthélemy's Sapho, Boyer's Sapho, French Sapho, Germaine Necker, Lettre de Sapho, New York, Ovid's Heroides, Sappho's French, White Rock of Leukas, Anne Le Fèvre Dacier, Bibliothèque Nationale New!
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Key figures in our theoretical modernity-most prominently Freud, Levi-Strauss, and Irigaray-have given us essentially the same vision of the foundation of the sociocultural order: a band of young men shapes itself into an ordered assembly through the formulation of rules to govern the exchange of women. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sapphic speculation, original woman writer, sapphic fictions, ideal love tradition, archetypal woman writer, sexually pitiable woman, chastity theory, poetic bonding, sapphic vision, fifteenth epistle, fictive epistles, sapphic eroticism, papyri discoveries, female abandonment, novelistic order, lettres amoureuses, erotic configuration, femmes damnées, sexual biography, precursor poet, suicidal leap, homosexual reading, triangular desire, female signature, modern recovery Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Billardon de Sauvigny, World War, Ovid's Sappho, French Sapphic, Moutonnet de Clairfons, Blin de Sainmore, German Hellenists, French Hellenists, Lord Nelvil, French Sappho, San Giovanni, Tanneguy Le Fèvre, Virgin Mary, Allier de Hauteroche, Barthélemy's Sapho, Boyer's Sapho, French Sapho, Germaine Necker, Lettre de Sapho, New York, Ovid's Heroides, Sappho's French, White Rock of Leukas, Anne Le Fèvre Dacier, Bibliothèque Nationale New!
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- Studies of the Greek Poets (Volume Two) (v. 2) by John Addington Symonds on page 222, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Poetarum Lesbiorum Fragmenta Hb (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints) by Edgar Page in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Sexual life in ancient Greece by Hans Licht on page 216, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- New French Feminisms by Elaine Marks in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: And Other Essays on Greek Love (New Ancient World Series) by David M Halperin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Ingres Then, and Now (Re Visions: Critical Studies in the History and Theory of Art) by Adrian Rifkin on page 113
- Romantic Medievalism: History and the Romantic Literary Ideal by Elizabeth Fay in Back Matter
- The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader by Henry Abelove on page 593
- A Feminist Introduction to Romanticism by Elizabeth A. Fay in Back Matter
- Representations of the Self from the Renaissance to Romanticism by Patrick Coleman on page 256
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