Catullus Through his Books
Dramas of Composition
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- Author: John Kyrin Schafer, Wake Forest University, North Carolina
- Date Published: March 2020
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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.
Read more- Introduces a new theory of Catullus' poetic corpus as three distinct, authorially arranged poetry collections
- Calls attention to the text's depictions of its own genesis, especially at the openings and close of each work, as gestures of authorial self-fashioning and metapoetic commentary
- Situates its analysis of Catullus' books within Roman literary culture and book-writing and reading practices
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'… 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
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- Date Published: March 2020
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781108687508
- contains: 1 b/w illus. 15 tables
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
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.
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