Sappho Is Burning

Name: Sappho Is Burning
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ISBN: 9780226167565

ISBN-10: 0226167569

ISBN-13: 9780226167565

Edition: 1997

Authors: Page duBois

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To know all we know about Sappho is to know little. Her poetry, dating from the seventh century B.C.E., comes to us in fragments, her biography as speculation. How is it then, Page duBois asks, that this poet has come to signify so much? Sappho Is Burning offers a new reading of this archaic lesbian poet that acknowledges the poet's distance and difference from us and stresses Sappho's inassimilability into our narratives about the Greeks, literary history, philosophy, the history of sexuality, the psychoanalytic subject. In Sappho is Burning, duBois reads Sappho as a disruptive figure at the very origin of our story of Western civilization. Sappho is beyond contemporary categories,…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 213
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.85" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Page duBois is Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego.



Preface and Acknowledgments



Fragmentary Introduction



The Aesthetics of the Fragment



Sappho's Body-in-Pieces



Sappho in the Text of Plato



Helen



Sappho in the History of Sexuality



Michel Foucault, Sappho, and the Postmodern Subject



Asianism and the Theft of Enjoyment


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