Woman's songs in ancient Greece / Anne L. Klinck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klinck, Anne L., 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek poetry--Translations into English.

Greek poetry.

Lyric poetry.

Femininity in literature.

Oral interpretation of poetry--History--To 1500.

Oral interpretation of poetry.

Women in literature.

Women and literature--Greece--History--To 1500.

Women and literature.

Greek poetry--History and criticism.

Lyric poetry--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca, NY : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Through a balanced discussion of poetry as performance, relevant kinds and genres of poetry, the definition and scope of "woman's song" as a mode, partheneia (maidens' songs) and the girls' chorus, lyric in the drama, echoes and imitations of archaic woman's song in Hellenistic poetry, and inferences about the differences between male and female authors, Klinck demonstrates that woman's song is ultimately best understood as the product of a male-dominated culture but that feminine stereotypes, while refined by skilful male poets, are interrogated and shifted by female poets.

Contents:

Alcman

Sappho

Corinna

Pindar

Other Lyric Poets: Male, Female, and Anonymous

Sophocles

Euripides

Nossis

Theochitus and Bion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-274) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-86766-0

9786612867668

0-7735-7721-1

OCLC:

760073400