Catullus and the poetics of Roman manhood / / David Wray [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Wray David <1959->
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| Titolo: |
Catullus and the poetics of Roman manhood / / David Wray [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xi, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 874/.01 |
| Soggetto topico: | Elegiac poetry, Latin - History and criticism |
| Love poetry, Latin - History and criticism | |
| Epigrams, Latin - History and criticism | |
| Masculinity in literature | |
| Self in literature | |
| Men in literature | |
| Intertextuality | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Rome In literature |
| Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-234) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Catullus & the Poetics of Roman Manhood |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Catullus and the poetics of Roman manhood |
| ISBN: | 1-107-11807-7 |
| 1-280-42084-7 | |
| 0-511-17434-9 | |
| 0-511-04868-8 | |
| 0-511-15414-3 | |
| 0-511-32827-3 | |
| 0-511-48244-2 | |
| 0-511-01802-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910449786203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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