Catullus and the poetics of Roman manhood /
"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 an...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.