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Catullus and the poetics of Roman manhood /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Catullus and the poetics of Roman manhood // David Wray.
remainder title:	Catullus & the Poetics of Roman Manhood
Author:	Wray, David,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 246 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Elegiac poetry, Latin - History and criticism. -
Subject:	Rome - Civilization -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511482441
ISBN:	9780511482441 (ebook)

Catullus and the poetics of Roman manhood /
Wray, David,1959-

Catullus and the poetics of Roman manhood /Catullus & the Poetics of Roman ManhoodDavid Wray. - 1 online resource (xi, 246 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

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.

ISBN: 9780511482441 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

966514
Catullus, Gaius Valerius
--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

802690
Elegiac poetry, Latin
--History and criticism.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

555298
Rome
--Civilization

LC Class. No.: PA6276 / .W73 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 874/.01

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