| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 246 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-234) and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"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. |
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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. |
| Subject |
Catullus, Gaius Valerius -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Catullus, Gaius Valerius.
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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. (OCoLC)fst00030219
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Catullus, Gaius Valerius.
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Elegiac poetry, Latin -- History and criticism.
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Love poetry, Latin -- History and criticism.
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Epigrams, Latin -- History and criticism.
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Masculinity in literature.
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Rome -- In literature.
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Self in literature.
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Men in literature.
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Intertextuality.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Elegiac poetry, Latin. (OCoLC)fst00907836
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Epigrams, Latin. (OCoLC)fst00914156
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Intertextuality. (OCoLC)fst00977562
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Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
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Love poetry, Latin. (OCoLC)fst01002912
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Masculinity in literature. (OCoLC)fst01011040
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Men in literature. (OCoLC)fst01016054
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Self in literature. (OCoLC)fst01111462
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Rome (Empire) (OCoLC)fst01204885
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Mannelijkheid.
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Gedichten.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wray, David, 1959- Catullus and the poetics of Roman manhood. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001 0521661277 (DLC) 2001025549 (OCoLC)46473937 |
| ISBN |
0511018029 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511018022 (electronic bk.) |
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0511033443 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511033445 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511482441 (electronic bk.) |
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0511482442 (electronic bk.) |
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661042084X (electronic bk.) |
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9786610420841 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511048685 (electronic bk.) |
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0511048688 (electronic bk.) |
