Catullus Through His Books - Dramas of Composition

Informationen zum Autor John Schafer is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University, North Carolina. He specialises in Republican and Imperial Latin literature, and is the author of numerous articles on Seneca, Vergil and Horace, as well as the monograph Ars Didactica: Seneca's 94th and 95th Letters (2009). Klappentext A new, holistic reading of Catullus emerges from convincing solutions to centuries-old problems concerning the nature of his surviving text. Zusammenfassung Seeks to transform our understanding of the beloved Latin poet by confronting centuries-old problems about his surviving text and the relationship between his poetry and his depicted life circumstances. Argues that Catullus produced three books of poems! whose design explains the notoriously jarring shifts in his work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Prolegomenon to the Catullus problem; 1. Ax (Poems 52-60); 2. A (Poems 1-51); 3. B (Poems 61-64) and C1 (65-68b); 4. C2 (Poems 69-116); Conclusion: two interpretive applications; Bibliography; Index; Index Locorum.

Product details

• Authors: John Kyrin Schafer, John Kyrin (Wake Forest University Schafer
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781108472241
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47224-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets