Catullan provocations : lyric poetry and the drama of position
This text argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. It shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own consumption as it explores the terms and possibilities of the poet's license.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (ix, 310 pages)
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The collection and its author
Catullus and the reader: the erotics of poetry
Obscenity figures
Urbanity: the poetry of exclusion
The wronged lover and the poet's isolation
Gazing at the golden age: belatedness and mastery in poem
The ruse of the victim: poems 10 and
The death of a brother: displacement and expression
Between men: Catullan literature
Index of Catullan poems cited
English