Catullus, Cicero, and a society of patrons : the generation of the text / Sarah Culpepper Stroup.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stroup, Sarah Culpepper, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catullus, Gaius Valerius.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Language and culture--Rome.

Language and culture.

Rome--Social life and customs.

Rome.

Rome--Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 308 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Catullus, Cicero, & a Society of Patrons

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a study of the emergence, development, and florescence of a distinctly 'late Republican' socio-textual culture as recorded in the writings of this period's two most influential authors, Catullus and Cicero. It reveals a multi-faceted textual - rather than more traditionally defined 'literary' - world that both defines the intellectual life of the late Republic, and lays the foundations for those authors of the Principate and Empire who identified this period as their literary source and inspiration. By first questioning, and then rejecting, the traditional polarisation of Catullus and Cicero, and by broadening the scope of late Republican socio-literary studies to include intersections of language, social practice, and textual materiality, this book presents a fresh picture of both the socio-textual world of the late Republic and the primary authors through whom this world would gain renown.

Contents:

[Part] I. How to Write about Writing : intersections of terminology and social code : when, what, and where. When? Otium as 'time to write'

What? Munus as the 'gift of duty'

Where? Libellus : polished and published

[Part] II. The Textualization of Display : intersections of rhetoric and social practice (I) : from display to text. The problem with liberal performance

From public display to textual display

The poetics of literary obligation

[Part] III. The Materialization of the Text : intersections of rhetoric and social practice (2) : the dedicated text as "acting object". An object of Catullan affection

Brutus : the dialogic personification of the Republican voice

Appendix : what "society of patrons?" : A prosopography of the players.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-511-85016-6

1-107-20615-4

1-282-61986-1

9786612619861

0-511-72841-7

0-511-72936-7

0-511-72606-6

0-511-72465-9

0-511-73017-9

0-511-72746-1

OCLC:

635291105