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How Women Became Poets : A Gender History of Greek Literature /
"This book that shows how ancient poets broke the silence of literary gender norms to express their own voices, and thus illuminating long neglected discussions of gender in the ancient world. In How Women Became Poets, Emily Hauser provides a startling new history of classical literature that...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2023.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Note on Transliterations and Texts
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: A Name of One's Own
- Part I. Lyre: The Singer-Man: Making Poets Male from the Beginning
- 1. The Invention of the Singer-Man in Homer
- 2. Mastering the Muses in Hesiod
- 3. The Instruments of Song in the Homeric Hymns
- Part II. Tool: The Man-Maker: Male Poets Making Male Citizens
- 4. How to Make Men in Aristophanes
- 5. The (Gendered) Problem of Plato and the Poets
- Part III. Wreath: The Female Homer: Toward a Language for Women Poets
- 6. Into the Otherworld: Singing Women in Euripides
- 7. A Woman, or a Poet? Words for Women Poets, from Herodotus to Antipater
- Part IV. Bird: A New Kind of Language: Women Poets in Their Own Words
- 8. Mother Sappho: Creating Women Poets
- 9. Bards and Birds: Old Terms on Her Terms, from Sappho to Nossis
- Conclusion: Beyond Words
- References
- Index of Passages
- General Index