Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781108459174 |
| ISBN10: | 110845917X |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 268 pages |
| Size: | 229x152x14 mm |
| Weight: | 395 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 1 b/w illus. 15 tables |
| 543 |
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Literature in general, reference works
History in general, methods
Ancient History (until the fall of the Roman Empire)
Volumes of poetry
Anthologies
Literature in general, reference works (charity campaign)
History in general, methods (charity campaign)
Ancient History (until the fall of the Roman Empire) (charity campaign)
Volumes of poetry (charity campaign)
Anthologies (charity campaign)
Catullus Through his Books
Dramas of Composition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 6 April 2023
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Short description:
A new, holistic reading of Catullus emerges from convincing solutions to centuries-old problems concerning the nature of his surviving text.
Long description:
Modern readings of the Roman poet Catullus' work have always been constrained by doubts about the surviving text. Does the sequence of our corpus reflect the artistically coherent and meaningful arrangement of the poems? Why are the various parts of the collection so jarringly different in content and emotional tone? To what extent, if at all, can we explain these shifts by appealing to Catullus' famously vivid portrayals of his emotions and life circumstances? Catullus Through his Books argues that we possess three separate books of poems designed by the poet himself; at key moments in these books, the poems dramatise the creative activity of their own composition, embedding apparent autobiographical details and purportedly revealing the poet's intentions and goals. These dramas of composition direct us through the poems, integrating our understanding of each part and generating a holistic vision of Catullus as poet of self-destroying longing and irreparable loss.
'... a book with which every expert of Catullus will have to confront himself and that certainly testifies the intelligence, acuity and even the esprit de finesse of its author.' Sergio Audano, Resenas Reviews
'... a book with which every expert of Catullus will have to confront himself and that certainly testifies the intelligence, acuity and even the esprit de finesse of its author.' Sergio Audano, Resenas Reviews
Table of Contents:
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.
