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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Sappho"”.
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Sappho Green
A collection of poems.
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Out of the Unexpected: poems with Sappho
… remaining fragments of the ancient Greek poet Sappho as titles, a first or last line, and more often are placed within and throughout the poems. The fragments are italicized to both celebrate and enhance the reading of Sappho.</p> <p>Sappho was born in 630 BC in Greece. From her nine books only …
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Peggy Glanville-Hicks' Opera Sappho, A Critical Examination
… has been written about her last great work, Sappho. The purpose of this minor thesis, therefore, is to examine this last grand, yet unperformed opera. This thesis will present the composer’s background, musical training and her philosophies on music and give an overview of her musical style. …
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Algernon Charles Swinburne: the causes and effects of his Sapphic possession
The thesis regards the extraordinary power of Sappho in the 1860s as resulting in a form of “Sapphic Possession” which laid hold on Swinburne, shaped his verse, produced a provocative new poetics, and which accounted for a critical reception of his work that was both hostile and enthralled. Using …
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Towards a queer liminality: an examination of the use of space in Irish lesbian fiction 1872-2017
… The term lesbian is associated with the poet Sappho, who resided in the Greek island of Lesbos. The fact that Sappho originated from an island, a liminal borderland space, is significant as it signifies how lesbianism can be regarded in spatial terms. By applying theories of liminality to …
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Sapphic reflections of feminine creative power and male interruption in the works of Virginia Woolf
… has come an interest in Sapphism, a term evoking Sappho, the only female lyric poet for whom any poetry remains. Sappho’s poetry reveals her to be a “lesbian”: a woman expressing homoerotic feelings for other women. The word Sapphist has become interchangeable with the word lesbian, and Virginia …
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Greek Meter : An Approach Using Metrical Grids and Maxent
… examines the rhythmically more complex verses of Sappho and Alcaeus in the light of Paul Kiparsky’s recent proposal that the rhythmic aperiodicity that characterizes much early Greek verse is due to syncopation. It is shown that Kiparsky's theory, with some revisions, can be applied to the …
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Der Troische Krieg in der nachhomerischen Literatur bis zum 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr.
… wie nachhomerische Autoren, die Lyriker Alkaios, Sappho und Stesichoros, die Geschichtsschreiber Herodot und Thukydides, und die Tragiker Aischylos, Sophokles und Euripides, den Troischen Krieg als mythische Vergangenheit behandeln. Der spezifische Charakter des jeweiligen Umgangs mit dem Stoff …
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De l'intertextualité mythique dans Le Corps lesbien de Monique Wittig.
… il est progressivement entre apres les vers de Sappho, c'est-a-dire au fur et a mesure que se consolide, en Grece, la culture des envahisseurs patriarcaux (les Acheens et les Doriens) et que la religion chretienne point dans le bassin mediterraneen. L'auteure opere la "resurrection" parodique de …
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Let me show you : mentors, role models, and multiple role planning of gifted young women
From our earliest history, gifted women from Sappho and Harriet Tubman to Eleanor Roosevelt and Nadine Gordimer have enhanced our lives through their gifts and accomplishments. Since many of these gifted women have succeeded in the face of almost insurmountable obstacles, it is often assumed that …
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Post-Internet Queer Reproductive Work and The fixed Capital of Fertility: The Interface, the Network and the Viral as Themes and Modes of artistic Response
… close readings of 1970s UK lesbian magazine Sappho, who published poetry and operated as a network for resource sharing across disability, sexuality, race and class struggles, and Gay Gamete (2000), a work of Net Art by U.S artist Clover Leary that protested an FDA protocol regulating gamete …
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“Closer to the Objective”: Following Helen from Troy to Chicago
… Lee’s Chi-Raq (2015); the Odyssey; poetry by Sappho about Helen of Troy; and Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad. The war genre’s relationship to the superhero genre allows for a brief elaboration about that family tree between Joss Whedon’s Avengers (2012) at the same time that it allows for …
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Queer Genealogies in Transnational Barcelona Maria-Mercè Marçal, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Flavia Company
How do queer texts engage traditional perceptions of family, nation, and the literary canon? How do readers and writers connect with their predecessors? Natasha Tanna explores lesbian and queer desire through three authors based in Barcelona, a key locus of queer cultural production. Her analysis …
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Early Greek Indexicality: Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry
This thesis is concerned with early Greek literary history and the nature of archaic Greek allusion. It examines how our earliest Greek poets self-consciously marked and signalled their interactions with other texts and traditions, often in a deeply antagonistic fashion. In recent years, scholars …