 |
[email protected] |
 |
3275638434 |
 |
 |
| Paper Publishing WeChat |
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
A Rebellious Mimic: Sappho’s Literary Allegiance and Betrayal in Fragment 1 and 16
CHEN Kai
Full-Text PDF
XML 421 Views
DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2022.06.004
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Sappho’s Fragment 1 and Fragment 16 are both about the feminine love and desire. This essay invents an original term “rebellious mimic”, based upon Jack Winkler’s theory “double consciousness”, to interpret the two lyrics: “mimic” means that both lyrics, formulaically, adhere or allude to the literary norms which are frequently applied by other male authors while “rebellious” further complements that she creatively alters the conventional themes that are usually expected within such norms. For one thing, this literary contrast effectively attracts the audience’s attention and highlights the individual voice of Sappho in her lyrics. For another, it also alleviates the hostility between genders—it is intended to express that both men’s and women’s world share some common characteristics, instead of establishing one’s supremacy over the other.
Sappho, love, gender, rebellious mimic, double consciousness
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, June 2022, Vol. 12, No. 6, 613-619
Cameron, A. (1939). Sappho’s Prayer to Aphrodite. The Harvard Theological Review, 32(1), 1-17. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Doak, C., & Race, W. H. (2012). PRIAMEL. The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics (pp. 1107-1108). Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Giacomelli, A. (1980). The justice of Aphrodite in Sappho Fr. 1. Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-) (Vol. 110) (pp. 135-142). Boston: Scholars Press.
Homer, et al.. (1924). Iliad (New Ed. / revised by W. F. Wyatt, (Ed.)). Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.
Race, W. H. (1982). The classical priamel from homer to Boethius. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Rosenmeyer, P.A. (1997). Her master’s voice: Sappho’s dialogue with homer. Materiali e Discussioni per L'analisi Dei Testi Classici (Vol. 39) (pp. 123–149). Pisa: Istitui Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali.
Sappho, & Carson, A. (2002). If not, winter: Fragments of Sappho (1st Ed.). New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Willcock, M. M. (1999). Some aspects of the Gods in the Iliad. I. J. F. de Jong (Ed.), Homer critical assessment (pp. 404-416). London: Routledge.
Winkler, J. (1996). Garden of Nymphs: Public and private in Sappho’s lyrics. In E. Greene (Ed.), Reading Sappho: Contemporary approaches. Classics and contemporary thought; 2. Berkeley; London: University of California Press.
萨福 (Sappho). (2017). 你是黄昏的牧人 萨福诗选 (罗洛 (Luo Luo), Trans.). 北京 (Beijing): 人民文学出版社.