Sappho in the making
Subtitle: the early reception
By: by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis.
Publisher: Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674026865
Subjects: Sappho -- Appreciation; Sappho -- Criticism and interpretation; Sappho -- In art; Greek poetry -- History and criticism; Oral interpretation of poetry; Lesbians -- Greece; Women and literature -- Greece -- History -- To 1500; Lesbos Island (Greece) -- Antiquities
Genres: Antiquities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An anthropology of reception; title: Paradigms and filters; title: Classics and anthropology; title: The persistence of allegory : expected horizons and textualized cultures; title: Cultural translations and writing practices; title: Beyond fictionalization: agency, collective schemata, and interdiscursivity; title: Mythopraxis and traditions in flux; title: "Coining" Sappho and the hermeneutics of vraisemblance; title: Ethnographic archives of vraisemblance in attic ceramics; title: A syntax of image and representation; title: The social life of attic vases; title: Visualizing idealized cognitive models; title: Connotation and denotation; title: [Sappho] in the image; title: Performing with a barbitos; title: Singers; together; title: The grammar of late performances; title: Yes, in the company of a young woman; title: The tithonos painter and modes of representation; title: The rhetoric of lettering; title: Contextualizing schemata; title: Cultural performance, Anakreon, and the "elaborately dressed revelers"; title: Metonymic webs of signification; title: Recitals among women; title: Visualizing song/making; title: The anthropology of ancient reception : the late archaic and classical periods; title: On Lesbos; title: The politics of Lesbian idioms; title: Paradigms and histories; title: Libidinal economies; title: Cultural theatrics; title: Early performative poetics; title: Music and words : transmission in performance; title: The strategies of traveling; title: Economies of symposia and taverns; title: Clusters; title: Fluidities; title: A politics of music; title: Saxa loquuntur : alterities; title: Trafficability of palimpsests; title: Contextual plasticity; title: Traditions in flux; title: Reception as reenacted 'script'; title: The paradigms of comedy; title: An anatomy of representations; title: Elective affinities; title: Performance and metonymy; title: Herodotos, oral traditions, and symposia; title: Reperformance, genre, and textual plasticity: the anatomy of improvisation; title: Textual plasticity and dialogues; title: Reconstructive images; title: Closing stages; title: In search of Sappho's companions : anthropological fieldwork on socioaesthetic cultures.