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Victorian Sappho Paperback - 1999

by Prins, Yopie

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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999 Book. As New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. "What is Sappho, except a name? Although the Greek archaic lyrics attributed to Sappho of Lesbos survive only in fragments, she has been invoked for many centuries as the original woman poet, singing at the origins of a Western lyric tradition. Victorian Sappho traces the emergence of this idealized feminine figure through reconstructions of the Sapphic fragments in late-nineteenth-century England. Yopie Prins argues that the Victorian period is a critical turning point in the history of Sappho's reception; what we now call "Sappho" is in many ways an artifact of Victorian poetics. Prins reads the Sapphic fragments in Greek alongside various English translations and imitations, considering a wide range of Victorian poets--male and female, famous and forgotten--who signed their poetry in the name of Sappho. By "declining" the name in each chapter, the book presents a theoretical argument about the Sapphic signature, as well as a historical account of its implications in Victorian England." xiii, 279p.illus. bibliography, index..
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  • Title Victorian Sappho
  • Author Prins, Yopie
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
  • Date 1999
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 040932
  • ISBN 9780691059198 / 0691059195
  • Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.11 x 0.72 in (23.37 x 15.52 x 1.83 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Women and literature - England - History -, Women and literature - Greece
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-28067
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.809

From the rear cover

"Yopie Prins elegantly unravels the complex Victorian reception of Sappho. Notable above all for what it reveals about the theory and practice of translation, her book offers brilliant close readings of the translation, interpretation, imitation or adaption of Sappho's notoriously ambigious and fragmentary poetry."--Helene Foley, Barnard College, Columbia University

"Few readers of Victorian poetry display Yopie Prins's remarkable erudition, theoritical subtlety, and interpretive acuity. Her brilliant discussion illuminates how and why Sappho took many distinctive lyric shapes in Victorian culture. Further, Prins reveals how a searching, deconstructive critique of lyric can produce an innovative literary history."--Joseph Bristow, University of California, Los Angeles

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Yopie Prins is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan.

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