Format:
1 Online-Ressource (356 pages)
ISBN:
9780691239286
Content:
"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 redefines the canon as a constant struggle to be heard through, and sometimes despite, gender. By bringing together recent studies in ancient authorship, gender, and performativity, Hauser offers gendered lens to issues of voice and identity in classical literature and poetry. What emerges from this is a new literary history that reframes the authors of classical literature as both enforcing and exploring gender, and shows for the first time how women broke the silence of gender norms around literary production to express their own voices. By revisiting traditional assumptions about the canon of Greek literature, and highlighting the articulated construction of masculinity in Greek poetic texts, the book places ancient women poets back onto center stage as principal actors in the drama of the debate around what it means to create poetry. Much of the importance of this work is adding in female authors to the history of Greek literature, both well-known and marginal, while demonstrating how the idea of the author was born in the battleground of gender"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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
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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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691201078
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hauser, Emily How women became poets Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2023 ISBN 9780691201078
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Griechisch
;
Literatur
;
Autorin
;
Geschlechtergeschichte
Author information:
Hauser, Emily
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