Title Catullus and the poetics of Roman manhood / David Wray

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 246 pages) 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-234) and index Credits Machine generated contents note: 1 Catullan criticism and the problem of lyric -- 2 A postmodem Catullus? -- 3 Manhood and Lesbia in the shorter poems -- 4 Towards a Mediterranean poetics of aggression -- 5 Code models of Catullan manhood -- Works cited -- Passges discussed -- General index Notes English Print version record Subject Catullus, Gaius Valerius -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Catullus, Gaius Valerius fast Catulle, (0087?-0052? av. J.-C.) -- crtique et interprétation. ram Catullus, Gaius Valerius. swd Subject 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. TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. Elegiac poetry, Latin Epigrams, Latin Intertextuality Literature Love poetry, Latin Masculinity in literature Men in literature Self in literature Mannelijkheid. Gedichten. SUBJECT Rome -- In literature Subject Rome (Empire) Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 0511018029 9780511018022 0511033443 9780511033445 9780511482441 0511482442 661042084X 9786610420841 9780511048685 0511048688 1107118077 9781107118072 1280420847 9781280420849 0511174349 9780511174346 0511154143 9780511154140 0511328273 9780511328275

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