Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood

By David Wray

Book Overview

This literary study of the first-century BCE Roman poet, Catullus uses two sets of comparative models to offer a new understanding of his poems. The first consists of cultural anthropological accounts of male social interaction in the premodern Mediterranean, and the second, the postmodern poetics of such twentieth-century poets as Louis Zukofsky, which are characterized by simultaneous juxtaposition, a collage aesthetic, and self-allusive play. The book will be of interest to students of comparative literature and gender studies as well as to classicists.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521661277
• ISBN13: 9780521661270
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"