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Poetry Ancient, Classical & Medieval

Woman's Songs in Ancient Greece

by (author) Anne L. Klinck

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2008
Category
Ancient, Classical & Medieval
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773534490
    Publish Date
    Dec 2008
    List Price
    $40.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773534483
    Publish Date
    Dec 2008
    List Price
    $110.00
  • 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.

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