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by [duBois, Page]
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In "Sappho is Burning, " duBois reads Sappho as a disruptive figure at the very origin of our story of Western civilization. Sappho is beyond contemporary categories, inhabiting a space outside of reductively linear accounts of our common history. She is a woman, but also an aristocrat, a Greek, but one turned toward Asia, a poet who writes as a philosopher before philosophy, a writer who speaks of sexuality that can be identified neither with Michel Foucault's account of Greek sexuality, nor with many versions of contemporary lesbian sexuality. She is named as the tenth muse, yet the nine books of her poetry survive only in fragments. She disorients, troubles, undoes many certitudes in the history of poetry, the history of philosophy, the history of sexuality. DuBois argues that we need to read Sappho again.
Product Details
- University of Chicago Pre Brand
- Apr 15, 1997 Pub Date:
- 9780226167565 ISBN-13:
- 0226167569 ISBN-10:
- 213.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 8.5 in * 0.6 in * 5.5 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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