How women became poets : a gender history of Greek literature
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Published
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023].
ISBN
9780691201078, 0691201072
Physical Desc
xvii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Published
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023].
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9780691201078, 0691201072

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Description
"How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of gender. When Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one -- aoidos, or "singer-man." The most famous woman poet of ancient Greece, whose craft was one of words, had no words with which to talk about who se was and what she did. In How Women Became Poets, Emily Hauser rewrites the story of Greek literature as one of gender, arguing that the ways the Greeks talked about their identity as poets constructed, played with, and broke down gender expectations that literature was for men alone. Bringing together recent studies in ancient authorship, gender, and performativity, Hauser offers a new history of classical literature that redefines the canon as a constant struggle to be heard through, and sometimes despite, gender. Women, as Virginia Woolf recognized, need rooms of their own in order to write. So too, have women writers through history needed a name to describe what it is they do. Hauser traces the invention of that name in ancient Greece, exploring the archaeology of the gendering of the poet. She follows ancient Greek poets, philosophers, and historians as they developed and debated the vocabulary for authorship on the battleground of gender -- the building up and reinforcing of the word for male poet, followed by the creation, in response, of a language with which to describe women who write. Crucially, Hauser reinserts women into the traditionally all-male canon of Greek literature, arguing for the centrality of their role in shaping ideas around authorship and literary production." --,Jacket flap.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Hauser, E. (2023). How women became poets: a gender history of Greek literature . Princeton University Press.

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