Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood

Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9781139429696
ISBN-13 : 1139429698
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Download or read book Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood written by David Wray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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