How Women Became Poets by Emily Hauser
How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of gender.
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"Provocative. . .A brilliant book."---Shadi Barsch, Times Literary Supplement
"[A]n exciting and elegant survey of the entire ancient Greek literary tradition as a male construction, [and] a book that forces the reader to rethink many common assumptions about “women’s” poetry from antiquity to today." * Choice *
"Provocative. . .A brilliant book."---Shadi Barsch, Times Literary Supplement
"[A]n exciting and elegant survey of the entire ancient Greek literary tradition as a male construction, [and] a book that forces the reader to rethink many common assumptions about “women’s” poetry from antiquity to today." * Choice *
Emily Hauser is a senior lecturer in classics and ancient history at the University of Exeter. She is the author of the bestselling Mythica: A New History of Homer's World, Through the Women Written Out of It and a critically acclaimed trilogy of novels that reimagines the women of Greek myth: For the Most Beautiful, For the Winner, and For the Immortal.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691201078 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691201072 |
| Title | How Women Became Poets |
| Author | Emily Hauser |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2023-08-22 |
| Number of pages | 376 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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