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Woman's Songs in Ancient Greece

By Anne L. Klinck

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9780773577213, 9780773534483
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1912878 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
308\308
Time added
2023-08-12 07:47:59
POE008000

Description

Through a balanced discussion of poetry as performance, relevant kinds and genres of poetry, the definition and scope of "woman's song" as a mode, partheneia (maidens' songs) and the girls' chorus, lyric in the drama, echoes and imitations of archaic woman's song in Hellenistic poetry, and inferences about the differences between male and female authors, Klinck demonstrates that woman's song is ultimately best understood as the product of a male-dominated culture but that feminine stereotypes, while refined by skilful male poets, are interrogated and shifted by female poets.

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