Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Sappho
- Cambridge Companions to Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to Sappho
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Contexts
- Part II Poetics
- Chapter 7 Sappho and Genre
- Chapter 8 Performing Sappho
- Chapter 9 Sappho’s Metres and Music
- Chapter 10 Sappho’s Dialect
- Chapter 11 Sappho’s Poetic Language
- Chapter 12 Sappho’s Personal Poetry
- Chapter 13 Sappho’s Lyric Sensibility
- Chapter 14 Myth in Sappho
- Chapter 15 The Gods in Sappho
- Part III Transmission
- Part IV Receptions
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index to the Reception of Sappho
- Plate Section
- References
Chapter 7 - Sappho and Genre
from Part II - Poetics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 April 2021
- The Cambridge Companion to Sappho
- Cambridge Companions to Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to Sappho
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Contexts
- Part II Poetics
- Chapter 7 Sappho and Genre
- Chapter 8 Performing Sappho
- Chapter 9 Sappho’s Metres and Music
- Chapter 10 Sappho’s Dialect
- Chapter 11 Sappho’s Poetic Language
- Chapter 12 Sappho’s Personal Poetry
- Chapter 13 Sappho’s Lyric Sensibility
- Chapter 14 Myth in Sappho
- Chapter 15 The Gods in Sappho
- Part III Transmission
- Part IV Receptions
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index to the Reception of Sappho
- Plate Section
- References
Summary
Chapter 7 of The Cambridge Companion to Sappho considers the generic identity of Sappho’s poetry, noting the elusiveness of this idea in many of her fragments and proposing a new approach to the question.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Sappho , pp. 93 - 106Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021