Making silence speak : women's voices in Greek literature and society / edited by Andre Lardinois and Laura McClure.
Publication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2001.Description: x, 302 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 069100465X (alk. paper)
- 0691004668 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 880.9/352042 21
- PA3067 .M35 2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-288) and index.
Chapter One: Introduction by Laura McClure. PART ONE: THE ARCHAIC PERIOD: Chapter Two: This Voice Which Is Not One: Helen's Verbal Guises in Homeric Epic by Nancy Worman -- Chapter Three: The Voice at the Center of the World: The Pythias' Ambiguity and Authority by Lisa Maurizio -- Chapter Four: Just Like a Woman: Enigmas of the Lyric Voice by Richard P. Martin -- Chapter Five: Keening Sappho: Female Speech Genres in Sappho's Poetry by Andre Lardinois. PART TWO: THE CLASSICAL PERIOD: Chapter Six: Virtual Voices: Toward a Choreography of Women's Speech in Classical Athens by Josine H. Blok -- Chapter Seven: Antigone and Her Sister(s): Embodying Women in Greek Tragedy by Mark Griffith -- Chapter Eight: Women's Cultic Joking and Mockery: Some Perspectives by D. M. O'Higgins -- Chapter Nine: Women's Voices in Attic Oratory by Michael Gagarin. PART THREE: THE LATE CLASSICAL PERIOD AND BEYOND: Chapter Ten: The Good Daughter: Mothers' Tutelage in Erinna's Distaff and Fourth-Century Epitaphs by Eva Stehle -- Chapter Eleven: Ladies' Day at the Art Institute: Theocritus, Herodas, and the Gendered Gaze by Marilyn B. Skinner -- Chapter Twelve: Windows on a Woman's World: Some Letters from Roman Egypt by Raffaella Cribiore -- Chapter Thirteen: (In-)Versions of Pygmalion: The Statue Talks Back by Patricia A. Rosenmeyer.
Publisher description: 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, Andre Lardinois, Richard Martin, Lisa Maurizio, Laura McClure, D. M. O'Higgins, Patricia Rosenmeyer, Marilyn Skinner, Eva Stehle, and Nancy Worman.
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