Sappho and Homer
A Reparative Reading
- Author: Melissa Mueller, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Date Published: December 2023
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108491709
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In this book, Melissa Mueller brings two of the most celebrated poets from Greek antiquity into conversation with contemporary theorists of gender, sexuality, and affect studies. Like all lyric poets of her time, Sappho was steeped in the affects and story-world of Homeric epic, and the language, characters, and themes of her poetry often intersect with those of Homer. Yet the relationship between Sappho and Homer has usually been framed as competitive and antagonistic. This book instead sets the two side by side, within the embrace of a non-hierarchical, 'reparative reading' culture, as first conceived by queer theorist and poet Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Reintroducing readers to a Sappho who supplements Homer's vision, it is an approach that locates Sappho's lyrics at the center of timely discussions about materiality, shame, queer failure, and the aging body, while presenting a sustaining and collaborative way of reading both lyric and epic.
Read more- Introduces a non-hierarchical mode of reading and applies it to interpreting the poetry of Sappho and Homer
- Invites readers to engage with queer theory while experiencing how it opens up new perspectives on ancient Greek literature
- Offers new readings of most of the major fragments of Sappho's poetry
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'… fascinating readings of Sappho and some new features of the compared episodes in Homeric poems … Recommended.' H. M. Roisman, CHOICE
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- Date Published: December 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108491709
- length: 256 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 155 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.522kg
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
Table of Contents
Introduction: A Colicky Muse
Part I. Reparative Reading:
1. Reparative Intertextualities: Sappho and Homer Between Lesbos and Troy
2. Sappho and Sedgwick as Reparative Readers
Part II. Sappho and Homer:
3. Plaiting and Poikilia: the Materialities of Sappho's Craft
4. Aphrodite and the Poetics of Shame
5. In the Bardo with Tithonos
6. Sappho fr. 44V, or Andromache's 'No Future' Wedding Song
7. Sappho's Third Alternative: Helen and the Queering of Epic Desire
8. Sapphic Remembering, Lyric Kleos
Epilogue: Homer's Night, Sappho's Day
Appendix: On the Absence of the newest Sappho fragments from this book.
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