Catullus & the Poetics of Roma (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521030694)

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.

Author: David Wray
ISBN-10: 0521030692
ISBN-13: 9780521030694
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/18/2007
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d