Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood

Auteur: Wray, David (University of Chicago)
Editeur: Cambridge University Press
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.
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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.
ISBN / EAN 9780521661270
Auteur Wray, David (University of Chicago)
Editeur Cambridge University Press