Author: Greene, Ellen
Title: Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches
Description: Berkeley [CA], Univ. of California Press, (1996). orig. wrappers. 23x15cm, xiii,303 pp, PAPERBACK. Series: Classics and contemporary thought, 2.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Sappho’s amatory language / Giuliana Lanata -- Critical stereotypes and the poetry of Sappho / Mary R. Lefkowitz -- Phaethon, Sappho’s Phaon, and the white rock of Leukas / Gregory Nagy -- Eros and incantation / Charles Segal -- Sappho and Helen / Page duBois -- Gardens of nymphs / Jack Winkler -- Sappho’s group / Claude Calame -- Sappho and her social context / Judith P. Hallett -- Romantic sensuality, poetic sense / Eva Stehle -- Who sang Sappho’s songs? / André Lardinois -- Women and language in archaic Greece, or, Why is Sappho a woman? / Marilyn B. Skinner -- Sappho’s gaze / Eva Stehle -- Justice of Aphrodite in Sappho I /Anne Carson -- Apostrophe and women’s erotics in the poetry of Sappho / Ellen Greene -- Sappho and the other woman / Margaret Williamson ["This volume considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the western cultural tradition. Contributors focus on literary history, mythic traditions, cultural studies, performance studies, recent work in feminist theory, and more" - Publisher's description].

Keywords: Classical Philology, Sappho, Ancient Greece, Greek Literature, Love Poetry, Literary Criticism, Feminist Theory, Lesbos Island,