ENG 2116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tenth Muse, Thomas Bartholin, The Female Man
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Thurs sept 8 both aim for inclusivity (lgbtq2/ quiltbag) create a place setting/name plate for yourself for next class along with pronoun you use (he/she/they) How has a clitoris become something other than a biological fact to bartholin (in link with. > by being a female writer you are already seen as sexually deviant slide josephine balmer on translating sappho it is heterosexual desire that undoes sappho. Sappho is punished for her lesbianism, because she is made to fall in love (reason for her demise) Parallel between dickinson and sappho slide piecing together most translators have chosen to try and fill in the blanks where some lines could not be translated, balmer chose not to. I am green with envy : jealousy, nauseated by it. Man in the first sentence can be read as man as a general term for all men, mankind, but rather she is referring to one single man (which we discover in later sentences)
