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050 00 $aPA4409$b.D8 1995
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100 1 $aDuBois, Page.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82046284
245 10 $aSappho is burning /$cPage duBois.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c1995.
300 $axi, 206 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 195-201) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tFragmentary Introduction --$g2.$tThe Aesthetics of the Fragment --$g3.$tSappho's Body-in-Pieces --$g4.$tSappho in the Text of Plato --$g5.$tHelen --$g6.$tSappho in the History of Sexuality --$g7.$tMichel Foucault, Sappho, and the Postmodern Subject --$g8.$tAsianism and the Theft of Enjoyment.
520 $aTo know all we know about Sappho is to know little. Her poetry, dating from the seventh century B.C.E., comes to us in fragments, her biography as speculation. How is it then, Page duBois asks, that this poet has come to signify so much? Sappho Is Burning offers a new reading of this archaic Lesbian poet that acknowledges the poet's distance and difference from us.
520 8 $aIt stresses Sappho's inassimilability into our narratives about the Greeks, literary history, philosophy, the history of sexuality, the psychoanalytic subject.
520 8 $aIn 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 a common history.
520 8 $aShe 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 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.
520 8 $aDuBois argues that we need to read Sappho again.
600 00 $aSappho$xCriticism and interpretation$xHistory.
650 0 $aGreek poetry$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc.
650 0 $aLost literature$zGreece$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc.
650 0 $aCivilization, Modern$xGreek influences.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98007084
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zGreece$xHistory.
650 0 $aSex in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85120618
852 00 $bglx$hPA4409$i.D8 1995
852 00 $bbar$hPA4409$i.D8 1995