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Pages: 189
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-11-01 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Ridiculed for her Saturday salon, her long romance novels, and her protofeminist ideas, Madeleine de Scudéry (1607-1701) has not been treated kindly by the lit
Sappho's Leap
Language: en
Pages: 354
Authors: Erica Jong
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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A novel of ancient Greece tells the story of the epic poet's journeys, loves, and losses.
Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937
Language: en
Pages: 402
Authors: Joan DeJean
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989-10-18 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Considering Sappho as a creature of translation and interpretation, a figment whose features have changed with social mores and aesthetics, Joan DeJean construc
The Triumph of Pleasure
Language: en
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Authors: Georgia Cowart
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-12-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Sappho Is Burning
Language: en
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Authors: Page duBois
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-12 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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She 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 sexual