Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood
David (University of Chicago) Wray
Cambridge University Press, 2007
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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-13
- 9780521030694
- ISBN-10
- 0521030692
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2007
- Publication date
- 2007-01-18
- Pages
- 260
- Dimensions
- 152x231x19
- Weight
- 412