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The Sappho History
by Margaret Reynolds
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (2003-05-23)
ISBN: 0333971701
EAN: 9780333971703
Dewy Decimal #: 809.93351
Hardcover: 301 pages
Edition: 1. Ed
SKU: B938-1169
Condition: Like New
Comments: Missing dust-jacket. UNREAD but may have minor imperfections such as a crease or mark. In stock - quick dispatch, from an efficient and professional leading British bookselling firm.
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Excellent
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-01-19
In The Sappho History, Reynolds looks not at Sappho, but at the reflections and refractions of Sappho from the mid-18th century to today. Not a classicist herself, she has a refreshing way of reading both the poetry and the iconic status of Sappho that sends you back both to the poetry and the responses of antiquity with a new view.
Apart from her own personal responses and insights, Reynolds writes marvellously, so that her prose is a pleasure to read in its own right. The only area that I found disconcertingly missing was the surprising one of gender: what does it mean, and how does it (should it?) change our interpretation that male writers appropriate the subject position of a Greek woman?
Still, this is an excellent, stimulating book, which also has good production values, making it a pleasure to hold as well as to read.
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