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Catullus and the poetics of Roman manhood / David Wray.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wray, David, 1959- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catullus, Gaius Valerius--Criticism and interpretation.
- Catullus, Gaius Valerius.
- Elegiac poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
- Elegiac poetry, Latin.
- Love poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
- Love poetry, Latin.
- Epigrams, Latin--History and criticism.
- Epigrams, Latin.
- Masculinity in literature.
- Self in literature.
- Men in literature.
- Intertextuality.
- Rome--In literature.
- Rome.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Catullus & the Poetics of Roman Manhood
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book applies comparative cultural and literary models to a reading of Catullus' poems as social performances of a 'poetics of manhood': a competitively, often outrageously, self-allusive bid for recognition and admiration. Earlier readings of Catullus, based on Romantic and Modernist notions of 'lyric' poetry, have tended to focus on the relationship with Lesbia and to ignore the majority of the shorter poems, which are instead directed at other men. Professor Wray approaches these poems in the light of more recent models for understanding male social interaction in the premodern Mediterranean, placing them in their specifically Roman historical context while bringing out their strikingly 'postmodern' qualities. The result is an alternative way of reading the fiercely aggressive and delicately refined agonism performed in Catullus' shorter poems. All Latin and Greek quoted is supplied with an English translation.
- Contents:
- 1. Catullan criticism and the problem of lyric
- 2. A postmodern Catullus?
- 3. Manhood and Lesbia in the shorter poems
- 4. Towards a Mediterranean poetics of aggression
- 5. Code models of Catullan manhood.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-234) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-11807-7
- 1-280-42084-7
- 0-511-17434-9
- 0-511-04868-8
- 0-511-15414-3
- 0-511-32827-3
- 0-511-48244-2
- 0-511-01802-9
- OCLC:
- 630527667
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