Relationality, Fidelity, and the Event in Sappho

IF 0.9 2区 历史学 0 CLASSICS CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY Pub Date : 2020-04-01 DOI:10.1525/ca.2020.39.1.29
A. Matlock
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Abstract

This article considers the conceptual significance of relationality in Sappho. It argues that Sappho’s poetry reconstitutes systems of relation by making evident exceptions to their explanatory capacity. These exceptions can be profitably understood through the rubric of the “event.” Drawing in particular on the relational function of prepositions and Alain Badiou’s philosophical work on the event, the article examines how “thinking prepositionally” alongside Sappho reveals both the relations that make up the situational world of her poetry as well as those evental moments of non-relation through which that world is impossibly transformed. The article concludes with considerations of Sapphic fidelity—that is, how Sappho’s poetry realizes the transformative potential of the event—and the poet’s articulation of the event through figures of preeminence and comparison.
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关系、忠诚与萨福的事件
本文探讨了《萨福》中关系性的概念意义。它认为萨福的诗歌通过对其解释能力的明显例外来重建关系体系。这些例外可以通过“事件”的标题来理解。特别是根据介词的关系功能和阿兰·巴迪乌关于事件的哲学著作,这篇文章探讨了与萨福一起的“介词思维”如何揭示构成她诗歌情境世界的关系,以及那些非关系的事件时刻,通过这些时刻,这个世界不可能被改变。文章最后考虑了萨斐的忠实性,即萨斐的诗歌如何实现这一事件的变革潜力,以及诗人通过卓越和比较的形象对这一事件进行的阐述。
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