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Princeton University Press Performance & Gender in Ancient Greece – Nondramatic Poetry in Its Setting (Princeton Legacy Library)

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"Like love, Greek poetry was not for hereafter", writes Eva Stehle, "but shared in the present mirth and laughter of festival, ceremony, and party". Describing how men and women, young and adult, sang or recited in public settings, Stehle treats poetry as an occasion for the performer's self-presentation. She discusses a wide range of pre-Hellenistic poetry, including Sappho's, compares how men and women speak about themselves, and constructs an innovative approach to performance that illuminates gender ideology. After considering the audience and the function of different modes of performance - community, bardic, and closed groups - Stehle explores this poetry as gendered speech, which inter-acts with performers' bodily presence to create social identities for the speakers. Texts for female choral performers reveal how women in public spoke in order to disavow the power of their speech and their sexual power. Male performers, however, could manipulate gender as an ideological system: they sometimes claimed female identity in addition to male, associated themselves with triumph over a defeated (mythical) female figure, or asserted their disconnection from women, thereby creating id

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Brand: Princeton University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0691036179
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Poetry & Poets
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Release Date: 20 February 1997
Listed Since: 13 February 2007

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