Author: Sarah Dowling
Publisher: Coach House Books
ISBN: 177056652X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
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 Mixing historical documents, oral histories, and experimental translations of the original lesbian poet’s works, this book combines documentary and speculation, surveying a century in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.
Entering Sappho
Author: Sarah Dowling
Publisher: Coach House Books
ISBN: 177056652X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
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 Mixing historical documents, oral histories, and experimental translations of the original lesbian poet’s works, this book combines documentary and speculation, surveying a century in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.
Publisher: Coach House Books
ISBN: 177056652X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
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 Mixing historical documents, oral histories, and experimental translations of the original lesbian poet’s works, this book combines documentary and speculation, surveying a century in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.
Entering Sappho
Author: Sarah Dowling
Publisher: Coach House Books
ISBN: 1770566511
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Coach House Books
ISBN: 1770566511
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
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.
Reading Sappho
Author: Ellen Greene
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520918061
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520918061
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
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.
Sappho
Author: Estelle Anna Robinson Lewis
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Sappho; a Tragedy in Five Acts and in Verse
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Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Sappho. A Tragedy in Five Acts
Author: Franz Grillparzer
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385515130
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Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385515130
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Dialogues in verse : Gebir. Acts and scenes. Hellenics
Author: Walter Savage Landor
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Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Works and Life: Gebir, etc. 1876
Author: Walter Savage Landor
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Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Sappho
Author: Franz Grillparzer
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Category : German drama
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Category : German drama
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Inciting Poetics
Author: Jeanne Heuving
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826360467
Category : Poetics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The essays in Inciting Poetics provide provocative answers to the book's opening question, "What are poetics now?" Authored by some of the most important contemporary poets and critics, the essays present new theoretical and practical approaches to poetry and poetics that address current topics and approaches in the field as well as provide fresh readings of a number of canonical poets. The four sections--"What is Poetics?," "Critical Interventions," "Cross-Cultural Imperatives," and "Digital, Capital, and Institutional Frames"--create a basis on which both experienced readers and newcomers can build an understanding of how to think and write about poetry. The diverse voices throughout the collection are both informative and accessible and offer a rich exploration of multiple approaches to thinking and writing about poetry today.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826360467
Category : Poetics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The essays in Inciting Poetics provide provocative answers to the book's opening question, "What are poetics now?" Authored by some of the most important contemporary poets and critics, the essays present new theoretical and practical approaches to poetry and poetics that address current topics and approaches in the field as well as provide fresh readings of a number of canonical poets. The four sections--"What is Poetics?," "Critical Interventions," "Cross-Cultural Imperatives," and "Digital, Capital, and Institutional Frames"--create a basis on which both experienced readers and newcomers can build an understanding of how to think and write about poetry. The diverse voices throughout the collection are both informative and accessible and offer a rich exploration of multiple approaches to thinking and writing about poetry today.