Add to ORKGFor contemporary female authors, Sappho is a literary forebear who is both a model for women’s writing and a reminder of the ways in which women have been excluded from the literary canon. Poet and novelist Erica Jong takes up the challenge to gender and authorship posed by Sappho in her 2003 novel, Sappho’s Leap. Jong weaves Sappho’s poetry into her fiction to both complement the Sapphic tradition and to supplant it, proving that female poetry —and authorship— is alive and well, with Sappho continually mediated by and validating each subsequent writer in the female tradition. In addition, Jong’s emphasis on the authentic expression of sexual desire as a bridge to authorship transcends gender binaries, turning Sappho’s Leap into a study of ...
Sappho was an ancient Greek lyric poet writing on the isle if Lesbos in the seventh century BC. Her ...
This thesis explores how Sappho’s eroticism was constructed in the eighteenth-century through Englis...
Contrary to the pessimism of American editors in the 1950s who told Mary Barnard that "Sappho would ...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Cambridge University Pre...
Abstract“Constellations of Sappho: Texts, Translations and Sexuality,” is centered on a group of wri...
Abstract“Constellations of Sappho: Texts, Translations and Sexuality,” is centered on a group of wri...
This study builds on current trends in queer and gender theory by re-evaluating the presence of Gree...
This study builds on current trends in queer and gender theory by re-evaluating the presence of Gree...
Previous scholarship has overanalyzed Sappho’s object preference more than her male counterparts. By...
In Early Modern Europe, it was self-evident that a poet was a man. But despite overwhelming theoreti...
Sappho’s poetry has been the subject of much scholarship and speculation from antiquity up to the pr...
Sappho’s poetry has been the subject of much scholarship and speculation from antiquity up to the pr...
BACKGROUND Sappho is an Ancient Greek poetess, whose poetry is well known in western literature...
I examine a literary tradition of male poets who use a fallen female figure as their speaking subjec...
I examine a literary tradition of male poets who use a fallen female figure as their speaking subjec...
Sappho was an ancient Greek lyric poet writing on the isle if Lesbos in the seventh century BC. Her ...
This thesis explores how Sappho’s eroticism was constructed in the eighteenth-century through Englis...
Contrary to the pessimism of American editors in the 1950s who told Mary Barnard that "Sappho would ...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Cambridge University Pre...
Abstract“Constellations of Sappho: Texts, Translations and Sexuality,” is centered on a group of wri...
Abstract“Constellations of Sappho: Texts, Translations and Sexuality,” is centered on a group of wri...
This study builds on current trends in queer and gender theory by re-evaluating the presence of Gree...
This study builds on current trends in queer and gender theory by re-evaluating the presence of Gree...
Previous scholarship has overanalyzed Sappho’s object preference more than her male counterparts. By...
In Early Modern Europe, it was self-evident that a poet was a man. But despite overwhelming theoreti...
Sappho’s poetry has been the subject of much scholarship and speculation from antiquity up to the pr...
Sappho’s poetry has been the subject of much scholarship and speculation from antiquity up to the pr...
BACKGROUND Sappho is an Ancient Greek poetess, whose poetry is well known in western literature...
I examine a literary tradition of male poets who use a fallen female figure as their speaking subjec...
I examine a literary tradition of male poets who use a fallen female figure as their speaking subjec...
Sappho was an ancient Greek lyric poet writing on the isle if Lesbos in the seventh century BC. Her ...
This thesis explores how Sappho’s eroticism was constructed in the eighteenth-century through Englis...
Contrary to the pessimism of American editors in the 1950s who told Mary Barnard that "Sappho would ...