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Catullus (Oxford Readings in Classical Studies)

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
0199280347, 9781435610095, 9780199280346
LCC
PA6276 .C38 2007
Open Library ID
OL10146433M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3658361 bytes)
Pages
617\617
Topic
Education
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Oxford Readings in Catullus is a collection of articles that represent a sampling of the most interesting and important work on Catullus from around 1950 to 2000, together with three very short pieces from the Renaissance. The readings, selected for their intrinsic interest and importance, are intended to be thought-provoking (and in some cases provocative) and to challenge readers to look at Catullus in different ways. They demonstrate a number of approaches - stylistic, historical, literary-historical, New Critical, and theoretical (of several flavours). Such hermeneutic diversity is particularly appropriate in the case of Catullus, whose oeuvre is famously - some might say notoriously - varied in length, genre, tone, and subject matter. The collection as a whole demonstrates what has interested Catullus' readers in the last half century and suggests some of the ways in which they might approach his poetry in the future. It is accompanied by an introduction by Julia Haig Gaisser on themes in Catullan criticism from 1950-2000.

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