Helen Morales, Times Literary Supplement
"[Reading Sappho and Re-Reading Sappho are] the first anthologies of scholarship on Sappho. . . . They constitute an essential advance in Sappho scholarship, engage provocatively with critical debates about gender, contextualization and reception, and confirm the excellence of the series Classics and Contemporary Thought."
R. Nadelhaft, Choice
"Reflects some of the currents in classics scholarship as well as gender theory, locating Sappho at the intersection of varieties of critical thought in the late 20th century."
About the Author
Ellen Greene is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Oklahoma.
Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches FROM THE PUBLISHER
In this volume, scholarship on Sappho moves beyond a limiting focus on textual reconstruction or analysis of her possible biography to study her as a powerful and influential voice in the Western cultural tradition. Many of the essays presented here mark a turning point in Sappho scholarship, an efflorescence of literary and contextual criticism in which scholars read Sappho's poetry for its literary content and its relation to literary and mythical tradition. The move to assimilate methodologies from other branches of literary and cultural studies is evident, and feminist scholarship and work on gender theory are represented. The aim of this collection is to draw well-deserved attention to Sappho's importance as a poet and to offer a sense of the lively debate and competing critical positions within Sappho studies.
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