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... the intertextual web created by these letters, the essay shows why intertextuality is a key for deciphering a text’s articulation of the feminine. 24 In Remedia Amoris 371, Ovid notes that his critics envy his freedom of speech, licentia ( Art ). 23 Catullus uses Sappho to create a poetic persona...

...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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....” 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...

.... 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, but as problematization: as a problem to be thought, respectively. ( Huffer, “Lipwork” 100–101 ) Eros, queer...

... of the texts of Western culture are addressed to women, they have 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...

... and Barbara Love, who wrote in Sappho Was a Right-On Woman about the early women’s liberation movement and its most influential group, the National Organization for Women (now), in the period between 1968 and 1971: “Lesbians were permitted to work behind the scenes and even found their way to top offices...

... 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...

... better and be better than their Caucasian counterparts, as they imagined a new world order 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...