Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood

ISBN-13: 9780521661270 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 260 str.

David Wray; David Wray

Opis

This literary study of the first-century BCE Roman poet, Catullus uses two sets of comparative models to offer a new understanding of his poems. The first consists of cultural anthropological accounts of male social interaction in the premodern Mediterranean, and the second, the postmodern poetics of such twentieth-century poets as Louis Zukofsky, which are characterized by simultaneous juxtaposition, a "collage" aesthetic, and self-allusive play. The book will be of interest to students of comparative literature and gender studies as well as to classicists.

Recenzje

'… a sensitive study of an amazing poet, certainly careful and courteous in its chosen methodology, distinguished by its wide reading among fashionable critics and by the receptive eye it opens to many (not all) facets of the Catullan jewel. This is a careful book, deserving attention.' Latomus

Spis treści

Preface; 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; Works cited; Passages discussed; General index.