Making Silence Speak : Women's Voices in Greek Literature and Society / André Lardinois, Laura McClure.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lardinois, A. P. M. H., editor.

McClure, Laura, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in literature.

Speech in literature.

Greek language--Spoken Greek.

Greek language.

Women--Greece--Social conditions.

Women.

Women--Greece--Intellectual life.

Greek literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Women and literature--Greece.

Women and literature.

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 302 p. :) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This collection attempts to recover the voices of women in antiquity from a variety of perspectives: how they spoke, where they could be heard, and how their speech was adopted in literature and public discourse. Rather than confirming the old model of binary oppositions in which women's speech was viewed as insignificant and subordinate to male discourse, these essays reveal a dynamic and potentially explosive interrelation between women's speech and the realm of literary production, religion, and oratory. The contributors use a variety of methodologies to mine a diverse array of sources, from Homeric epic to fictional letters of the second sophistic period and from actual letters written by women in Hellenistic Egypt to the poetry of Sappho. Throughout, the term "voice" is used in its broadest definition. It includes not only the few remaining genuine women's voices but also the ways in which male authors render women's speech and the social assumptions such representations reflect and reinforce. These essays therefore explore how fictional female voices can serve to negotiate complex social, epistemological, and aesthetic issues. The contributors include Josine Blok, Raffaella Cribiore, Michael Gagarin, Mark Griffith, André Lardinois, Richard Martin, Lisa Maurizio, Laura McClure, D. M. O'Higgins, Patricia Rosenmeyer, Marilyn Skinner, Eva Stehle, and Nancy Worman.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Note on Abbreviations, Texts, and Translations

CHAPTER ONE. Introduction / McClure, Laura

PART ONE: T H E ARCHAIC PERIOD

CHAPTER TWO. This Voice Which Is Not One / Worman, Nancy

CHAPTER THREE. The Voice at the Center of the World / Maurizio, Lisa

CHAPTER FOUR. Just Like a Woman / Martin, Richard P.

CHAPTER FIVE. Keening Sappho / Lardinois, André

Part Two: THE CLASSICAL PERIOD

CHAPTER SIX. Virtual Voices / Blok, Josine H.

CHAPTER SEVEN. Antigone and Her Sister(s) / Griffith, Mark

CHAPTER EIGHT. Women's Cultic Joking and Mockery / O'Higgins, D. M.

CHAPTER NINE. Women's Voices in Attic Oratory / Gagarin, Michael

Part Three: THE LATE CLASSICAL PERIOD AND BEYOND

CHAPTER TEN. The Good Daughter / Stehle, Eva

CHAPTER ELEVEN. Ladies' Day at the Art Institute / Skinner, Marilyn B.

CHAPTER TWELVE. Windows on a Woman's World / Cribiore, Raffaella

CHAPTER THIRTEEN. (In-)Versions of Pygmalion / Rosenmeyer, Patricia A.

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-288) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691187594

0691187592

OCLC:

1132223518