Julia Haig Gaisser

Gebundenes Buch

Catullus

Beschreibung

Catullus is one of the liveliest and most appealing Roman poets. His emotion, charm, and apparent spontaneity resonate with readers as strongly today as in antiquity. This sophisticated literary and historical introduction brings Catullus to life for the modern reader and presents his poetry in all its variety of emotions, subjects, and styles. Julia Gaisser situates Catullus in his historical context, explaining the social and sexual conventions underlying his work. She treats Catullus's language, meters, and poetic architecture as essential elements of his poetry and shows how he has used them to achieve his poetic effects. She discusses the physical constraints and artistic possibilities of the papyrus roll, the character or persona that Catullus presents in his poetry, the ways in which his poems resonate both with each other and with earlier poetry, and the interpretations of his readers from antiquity to the present.

Autor

Julia Haig Gaisser is Eugenia Chase Guild Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Bryn Mawr College, and a past president of the American Philological Association. She is the author of Catullus and His Renaissance Readers (1993), Pierio Valeriano on the Ill Fortune of Learned Men: A Renaissance Humanist and His World (1999), and The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass: A Study in Transmission and Reception (2008), and the editor of Catullus in English (2001), and Catullus (2007).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781405118897
• ISBN-10: 140511889X
• Artikelnr.: 27236463

Rezensionen

"Gaisser (emer., Bryn Mawr College), who has written extensively onancient Roman poetry and Renaissance Latin literature, has producedan excellent comprehensive guide to the major Roman poet Catullus."(CHOICE, December 2009)

"Such a simple and yet profound book could only have been writtenby someone with the authority conferred by a detailed knowledge ofCatullus' work, its transmission and its reception over the ages.... I consider [it] the best existing survey on Catullus."(Bryn Mawr Classical Review, December 2009)"An essential contribution to Catullan studies, this volume deftlyintroduces readers to fundamental issues: formation of thecollection; the speaking voice; verbal and structural techniques;intertextuality; reception both ancient and contemporary."
-Marilyn B. Skinner, University of Arizona

"Gaisser speaks with authority about every aspect ofCatullus' poetry. From now on, when my students, at whateverlevel, ask for a single book introduction to Catullus, I willrecommend this one."
-Andrew Feldherr, Princeton

"A panoramic introduction that--like Catullus himself--islearned, accessible and luminous, rich with insights on poeticsound and architecture, intertextuality and literary reception.Gaudete, Veneres Cupidinesque, and readers of Catullus new andold."
-Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, CollegePark