The Myth of Eros in Michael Field’s Sapphic Project: from a New Materialism to a Tragic Determinism
The purpose of this paper is to examine how Katharine Bradley and her niece Edith Cooper reinterpret the figure of Sappho in direct connection with the myth of Eros in Long Ago (1889), their first volume of lyrics written under the pen name of Michael Field. To this end, I select a series of poems a...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidad de Extremadura
2020-09-01
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| Series: | Anuario de Estudios Filológicos |
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| Online Access: | https://publicaciones.unex.es/index.php/AEF/article/view/324 |
| Summary: | The purpose of this paper is to examine how Katharine Bradley and her niece Edith Cooper reinterpret the figure of Sappho in direct connection with the myth of Eros in Long Ago (1889), their first volume of lyrics written under the pen name of Michael Field. To this end, I select a series of poems addressed to the Greek deity of love, offer a close reading thereof, and prove that the Fields compose a dramatic mythography that explores the god’s paradoxical identity and, in so doing, reveals a timeless truth contained in the very essence of the Eros myth: love is an ambivalent phenomenon that creates, inspires and elevates as much as it destroys, oppresses, and kills. |
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| ISSN: | 0210-8178 2660-7301 |