Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood

Informationen zum Autor David Wray is Assistant Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. He received his doctorate from Harvard and has previously taught at Georgia State University and Kennesaw State University. He has published articles on Roman and Hellenistic Greek poetry and literary translation and is currently an Associate Editor of the journal Classical Philology. Klappentext Literary study using two comparative models to offer an alternative understanding of Catullus' poems. Zusammenfassung An interesting reading of Catullus' poems as social performances of a 'poetics of manhood'. It exploits cultural anthropological accounts of male social interaction in the premodern Mediterranean! which are placed in a Roman historical context and illuminated by a postmodern poetics of performativity! juxtaposition! simultaneity and intertextuality. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 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; Works cited; Passages discussed; General index.

Product details

• Authors: David Wray, David (University of Chicago) Wray, Wray David
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.09.2001
• EAN: 9780521661270
• ISBN: 978-0-521-66127-0
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity