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A companion to Catullus / edited by Marilyn B. Skinner.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catullus, Gaius Valerius--Criticism and interpretation.
- Catullus, Gaius Valerius.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvi, 590 pages) : illustrations, map.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- A Companion to Catullus addresses the central themes in Catullan studies, providing readers with the fundamental knowledge necessary to appreciate and understand the poet's work. This significant collection of essays from internationally renowned scholars includes discussions about production, genre, style, and reception, as well as interpretive essays on key poems and groups of poems. Grounding the author firmly in the socio-historical world around him, this Companion reflects the most recent trends in the field. Chapters provide convenient surveys of complex issues and challenge received wisdom by presenting original readings of major poems and suggesting new interpretations of biographical evidence.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Marilyn B. Skinner
- History and transmission of the text / J. L. Butrica
- Authorial arrangement of the collection : debate past and present / Marilyn B. Skinner
- The Valerii Catulli of Verona / T. P. Wiseman
- The contemporary political context / David Konstan
- The intellectual climate / Andrew Feldherr
- Gender and masculinity / Elizabeth Manwell
- Catullus and Sappho / Ellen Greene
- Catullus and Callimachus / Peter E. Knox
- Neoteric poetics / W. R. Johnson
- Elements of style in Catullus / George A. Sheets
- Catullus and elite republican social discourse / Brian A. Krostenko
- Catullus and the programmatic poem : the origins, scope, and utility of a concept / William W. Batstone
- The Lesbia poems / Julia T. Dyson
- Sexuality and ritual : Catullus' wedding poems / Vassiliki Panoussi
- Catullan intertextuality : Apollonius and the allusive plot of Catullus 64 / Jeri Blair DeBrohun
- Poem 68 : love and death, and the gifts of Venus and the Muses / Elena Theodorakopoulos
- Social commentary and political invective / W. Jeffrey Tatum
- Catullus and Horace / Randall L. B. McNeill
- Catullus and Vergil / Christopher Nappa
- Catullus and Roman love elegy / Paul Allen Miller
- Catullus and Martial / Sven Lorenz
- Catullus in the Renaissance / Julia Haig Gaisser
- The modern reception of Catullus / Brian Arkins
- Catullus in the secondary school curriculum / Ronnie Ancona and Judith P. Hallett
- Catullus in the college classroom / Daniel H. Garrison
- Translating Catullus / Elizabeth Vandiver.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [542]-567) and indexes.
- Electronic reproduction. Hoboken, N.J. Available via World Wide Web.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Companion to Catullus.
- ISBN:
- 9781405135337
- 1405135336
- 9780470751558
- 047075155X
- 6611322396
- 9786611322397
- Publisher Number:
- 99947666912
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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