The lesbian lyre
Subtitle: reclaiming Sappho for the 21st century
By: Jeffrey M. Duban
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 795
ISBN-13: 9781905570799
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Translations into English; Criticism and interpretation; Women and literature; Greek poetry
Other titles: Reclaiming Sappho for the 21st century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 562-760) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments, Abbreviations, Guide to Pronunciation, Preface; title: Part I. Greek Lyric, Greek Epic, and Old Testament; the Quarrel of Ancients and Moderns; title: Greekless Translators, Theorizing Scholars; title: Selected Lyric Poets of Antiquity: Archilochus, Alcman, Anacreon & Ibycus; title: Sappho: Antiquity's Poetess and Ours; title: Sappho's Eroticism; title: The Loves of Men, Gods, and Primordial Forces; title: Lesbos, Troy and Environs; the Principal Greek Genres and Dialects; title: Part II. Sappho and the "Lyric Nine," An Anesthetic for Lyric Translation; title: The Aesthetic of English-Language Prosody in the Translation of Classical Verse; title: Translatability: Achieving Charm and Distinction in Translation; title: Translation as the Profession of Ignorance: Mary Barnard, Willis Barnstone, and Others; title: Translations Compared; title: Part III. Translations: Sappho, Alcman, Anacreon, Archilochus, Ibycus; title: Part IV. Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid: The Epic Cycle in Progress; title: Cosmic Preservation and the Heroism of Heracles; title: Self-Perpetuation and the Heroism at Troy; title: Imperishable Fame and the Evolution of Greek Epic; title: Imperishable Fame Denied: Sappho's "Wedding of Hector and Andromache"; title: Cataclysm Averted: Homer's Separation of Helen and Achilles; title: Part V. Homeric and Sapphic Meter, Metric Formulae and Oral Composition, the Origins of Rhyming Poetry, Milton on Blank Verse; title: Accentuation, Sound, and Word Order in Ancient Greek Poetry; title: Part VI. Growing Latin from Greek Roots, Rome's Imperial Vision and Its Aftermath; title: Part VII. Equal to the Gods: Poetic Sublimity, Inner Collapse; title: Equal to a God: Form and Content in Convulsive Union; title: Frenzied Emotion, Expressive Control: Form and Content Bound; title: Modernism Wins Out: Form and Content Abandoned; title: "Freedom, Freedom, Prison to the Free": The Obfuscatory Unfettered; title: Sappho Unbound and Boundaryless - Theorized, Personalized, Politicized; title: Boundaries, Artistic Fit, and What "Art" Means and Does; title: Part VII. Not Making it New (or Better): Recent Iliads and Aeneids; title: So Old It's New (and Better): The Smith/Miller Hexametric Iliad; title: On Leaving Well Enough Alone: Rejecting Lattimore for R. Fitzgerald; title: Pope's Iliad and E. FitzGerald's Rubaiyat; Pope on Chapman's Iliad; title: Versions and Perversions of Homer: R. Fitzgerald, Fagles, and Logue; title: Exra Pound: Damage to Sextus Propertius; title: Addendum, Notes, Bibliography, Index.