Non-Lyric and Lyric in Horace's Odes : The Poetics of Disguise and Infiltration.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Draper, Kenneth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horace, 65 B.C.-8 B.C.

Latin poetry--History and criticism.

Latin poetry.

Gender identity in literature.

Local Subjects:

Horace, 65 B.C.-8 B.C.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2026.

Summary:

Kenneth Draper's new volume investigates genre, gender, and self-presentation in Horace's first collection of Odes.It examines how Horace uses non-lyric genres--elegy, epic, invective, and philosophical discourse--to define his lyric project, responding to the rhetorical challenge of writing in the wake of civil war.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

One. Women's Clothes and Trojan Dust: Elegiac Disguis and Epic Infiltration

Two. The Voices of Moderation: Epicureanism, Stoicism, Metapoetics

Three. The Voice of Blame: Political and Poetological Invective

Four. Playing the Other: Bacchus, Disguise, and Infiltration

Conclusion

Works Cited

Subject Index

Index of Passages.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780472222650

OCLC:

1578184445