Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood
by David Wray
Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood
by David Wray
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Request this bookAn 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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Paperback, 10th Edition
ISBN13: 9780521030694
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2007
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