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Catullus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

Catullus

This book provides specially commissioned in-depth discussions of the poetry of Catullus from ten leading Latin scholars.

A Poetics of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 233

A Poetics of Postcolonial Biblical Criticism

Telling in current biblical postcolonial discourse that draws insights from the works of Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, and postcolonial theorists is the missing contribution of Léopold Sédar Senghor, the architect of Négritude. If mentioned at all, Senghor is often read through conclusions drawn by his critics or dismissed altogether as irrelevant to postcolonialism. Restored to its rightful place, Senghorian Negritude is a postcolonial lens for reading Scripture and other faith traditions with a view to reposition, conscientize, liberate, and rehabilitate the conquered, and enable them to reclaim their faith traditions and practices that once directed a mutual relationship between God, h...

Poetry for Patrons
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 507

Poetry for Patrons

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-09-18
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  • Publisher: BRILL

A study of the phenomenon of literary patronage, both non-imperial and imperial, during the reign of the Roman emperor Domitian (81-96 A.D.). The central texts are the Epigrams of Martial and the Silvae of Statius.

Death and Rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 156

Death and Rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1989-07-15
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Death and Rebirth in Virgil’s Arcadia is an introduction to the Eclogues, based on sound scholarship but also personally felt and addressed to a popular audience. It outlines clearly the literary and historical background of Virgil’s early poems, discusses each eclogue in some detail, and offers a new and challenging interpretation of the collection as a whole. The ten eclogues are shown to be a young poet’s attempt at self-understanding. Their symmetrical arrangement is a journey inward toward the central experience of death, and a journey back toward rebirth and the writing of larger and greater works.

Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 285

Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace

This book explores the whole range of the output of an exceptionally versatile and innovative poet, from the Epodes to the literary-critical Epistles. Distinguished scholars of diverse background and interests introduce readers to a variety of critical approaches to Horace and to Latin poetry. Close attention is paid throughout to the actual text of Horace, with many of the chapters focusing on reading a single poem. These close readings are then situated in a number of different political, philosophical and historical contexts. The book sheds light not only on Horace but on the general problems confronting Latinists in the study of Augustan poetry, and it will be of value to a wide range of upper-level Latin students and scholars.

Author and Audience in Latin Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

Author and Audience in Latin Literature

Essays by distinguished scholars on the relationship between Latin authors and their audiences.

Translation as Muse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Translation as Muse

Poetry is often understood as a form that resists translation. Translation as Muse questions this truism, arguing for translation as a defining condition of Catullus's poetry and for this aggressively marginal poet's centrality to comprehending cultural transformation in first-century Rome. Young approaches translation from several different angles including the translation of texts, the translation of genres, and translatio in the form of the pan-Mediterranean transport of people, goods, and poems. Throughout, she contextualizes Catullus's corpus within the cultural foment of Rome's first-century imperial expansion, viewing his work as emerging from the massive geopolitical shifts that marked the era. Young proposes that reading Catullus through a translation framework offers a number of significant rewards: it illuminates major trends in late Republican culture, it reconfigures our understanding of translation history, and it calls into question some basic assumptions about lyric poetry, the genre most closely associated with Catullus's eclectic oeuvre.

Monsters and Monstrosity in Augustan Poetry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 285

Monsters and Monstrosity in Augustan Poetry

An important contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of monster studies

The Cambridge Companion to Catullus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 417

The Cambridge Companion to Catullus

Comprehensive coverage, accessible to students and non-specialists, of one of the most popular poets of classical antiquity.

True Names
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 371

True Names

A key research tool in Vergilian studies, now in paper with substantial new material