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... Baudri of Bourgueil and Constance Ovidian poetry Sappho What does it mean to have a feminine voice in a literary world dominated by male authors? What would it mean for the contemporary reader of ancient and medieval texts to be responsive to the distinctiveness of the feminine voice...

...PAGE DUBOIS 2001 page dubois is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego and the author of Sappho Is Burning (University of Chicago Press, 1995), Torture and Truth (Routledge, 1991 ), Sowing the Body: Psychoanalysis and Ancient...

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... Voice in Heroides 15:Or, Why is Sappho a Man?” Roman Sexualities . Judith P. Hallett and Marilyn B. Skinner, eds. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997 . 274 –91. Habrich, Elmar, ed. Iamblichi Babyloniacorum reliquiae . Leipzig: Teubner, 1960 . Hawley, Richard. “ The Dynamics of Beauty in Classical...

....” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 6.2 & 3 ( 1994 ): 296 –312. duBois, Page. Sappho is Burning . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995 . Fineman, Joel. Shakespeare's Perjured Eye: The Invention of Poetic Subjectivity in the Sonnets . Berkeley, U of California P, 1988 . Fried, Debra...

... about the lens with which I would bring these women into focus. In chapter 10 of his treatise On the Sublime, Longinus juxtaposes some language from the Iliad - a simile comparing Hector's attack on the Greeks to the fury of an ocean wave - with Sappho's ode phainetai moi, a poem about the ways...

... of limbs (now again) stirs me—/sweetbitter unmanageable creature who steals in” ( Carson, If Not 265 ). Commenting on Sappho, Anne Carson writes: “Eros seemed to Sappho at once an experience of pleasure and pain. [. . .] One moment staggers under pressure of eros; one mental state splits. A simultaneity...

..., as an object through which language mindlessly “speaks.” Compare this with James Lee’s discussion of Foucaultian ethopoiesis in the context of Neil Hertz’s reading of Sappho and the sublime. Quoting Hertz’s description of Sappho’s “self-estrangement in language,” Lee finds a similar linguistic estrangement...

... eros is Sapphic [. . .]. [E]ros precedes bios: the bios of biopower, of our sexualized present. Another word for life, eros precedes bios as Sappho precedes Plato: we don’t know her well. Her eros remains monstrous, unfamiliar. Eros precedes bios not in any historically absolute sense...

... been so by and for men. What remains of woman since Sappho’s time is less than clear. So while it is true that woman may know, I may know what it is that I can say better as man (the trap...

... to prove the damage. —Lyotard academic feminism gender studies différend intervention pluralization sexual minorities © 2016 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2016 Works Cited Abbott Sidney Love Barbara . Sappho Was a Right...

... lesbianism that started with Jeannette Foster's Sex Variant Women in Literature (1956) and continued with, among others, Sydney Abbott and Barbara Love's Sappho Was a Right-On Woman (1972), Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon's Lesbian/Woman (1972), Jill Johnston's Lesbian Nation: The Feminist d fferences v Solution...

... but precisely what she does not find is that absorbed, drudging, puzzled, sometimes inspired creature, herself, who sits at a desk trying to put words together. So what does she do? What did I do? I read the older women poets with their peculiar keenness and ambivalence: Sappho, Christina Rossetti, Emily...

... and attempted to write it into being. After subjecting their main characters Iola Leroy and Sappho Clark (Mabelle Beaubean) to the gendered terrors of slavery—including concubinage, rape, forced impregnation and reproduction at the hands of white men—Harper and Hopkins redeem and reward the mulatta heroines...