Poetry Ancient, Classical & Medieval
Woman's Songs in Ancient Greece
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2008
- Category
- Ancient, Classical & Medieval
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773534490
- Publish Date
- Dec 2008
- List Price
- $40.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773534483
- Publish Date
- Dec 2008
- List Price
- $125.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773577213
- Publish Date
- Dec 2008
- List Price
- $95.00
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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.
About the author
Anne L. Klinck has recently retired from the University of New Brunswick, where she taught medieval literature and English language. Her previous books include The Old English Elegies: A Critical Edition and Genre Study and An Anthology of Ancient and Medieval Woman's Song.