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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Wray, David, 1959-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.