Turning in the next chapter to an especially characteristic new literary genre, the novel, Lanser explains that in negotiating and defining the modern subject, the novel depends on the threat or promise of the
sapphic as a boundary marker.
Scholars who are more familiar with fin-de-siecle sapphism will especially appreciate Myriam Robic's insights into the transformation of French
sapphic poetry between 1846 and 1889.
The first, "Sexual Geographies: Circulation and Modernity," focuses on
sapphic appropriations of urban space, with essays on how women such as the booksellers Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier and the garage proprietor Alice Anderson created cultural, social, and sexual alternatives for women within the more fluid and less constrictive geographies of major cities such as London, Melbourne, New York, and especially Paris.
There are plenty of other insights into the poem, but the book presses further, arguing that the Adonic cadence, which, as has often been noted (but without giving it its name), recurs throughout Holderlin's hymns, is the trace of a
Sapphic strain hitherto unacknowledged, or as Menninghaus puts it: 'das metrische Hypogramm gibt den grossen pindarischen Gebilden ganz buchstablich eine sapphisch-adonische Unterschrift' (p.99).For since Hellingrath's championing and editing of Holderlin in the early twentieth century the hymns have rightly been understood as modelled on Pindar, and particularly on the 'harte Fugung' of his style.
Or even Della and Binnie (the Square's last actual
Sapphic couple).
There are smouldering embers of sexual chemistry between Affleck and Lopez but both are stymied by their two-dimensional characters and the ludicrous notion that Ricki can suddenly abandon her
Sapphic nature after one romp between the sheets with Larry.
Hoping to read silences and ellipses as well as the words on the page, Andreadis traces the development of "
Sapphic discourse." In the place of honor is Katherine Philips, whose poetry of female friendship has long been a critical battleground of opposing views about the corporeality of same-sex erotics.
Ross (David Schwimmer, above) declares he is uncomfortable about
Sapphic rites as Carol and Susan prepare for their wedding.
"attempts to recover the imagination of goddess-centered Lesbos" as exemplified by Sappho, "the first love-possessed lyricist" (528-29).(2) Robert Babcock, indicating that Thomas Swann was the critic who "established a canon of [H.D.'s]
Sapphic verses" (43), extended Gregory's thesis in 1990 by demonstrating that H.D.'s "Pursuit" from Sea Garden was based specifically on Sappho's fragment 105.
Azmi was interested in the role, but the
Sapphic content gave her pause, says Mehta, "because of her work as an activist.
Midnight and the
Sapphic sobbing Thrusts through the darkness.
sapphic Of, relating to, or consisting of an aeolic meter associated with the Greek lyric poet Sappho that scans as - U - U | - U U - | U - - (a
sapphic hendecasyllable) or a four-line strophe that is characteristic of her verse.
Additionally, a '
sapphic textuality' is found in certain of Leapor's poems which, by offering female friendship as an alternative to the oppressiveness of heterosexual relations, disputes the 'rule of the fathers'.
