Catullus and the poetics of Roman manhood /
"This book applies comparative cultural and literary models to a reading of Catullus's 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 an...
| Основен автор: | Wray, David, 1959- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=77879 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Catullus and the poetics of Roman manhood. |
| Резюме: |
"This book applies comparative cultural and literary models to a reading of Catullus's 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 new models for understanding male social interaction in the pre-modern Mediterranean, placing them in their specifically Roman historical context while bringing out their strikingly "postmodern" qualities. The result is a new way of reading the fiercely aggressive and delicately refined agonism performed in Catullus's shorter poems. All Latin and Greek quoted is supplied with an English translation."--Jacket. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xi, 246 pages) |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-234) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0511018029 9780511018022 0511033443 9780511033445 9780511482441 0511482442 661042084X 9786610420841 9780511048685 0511048688 |