About this title: The poetry of the Late Roman Republican poet Gaius Valerius Catullus, a rich document of the human heart, is the earliest-known reasonably complete body of erotic verse in the West. Though approximately 116 poems survive, uncertainties about the condition of the fragmented manuscript and the narrative order of the poems make the Catullan text unusually problematic for the modern critic. Indeed, the poems can be arranged in a number of ways, making a multitude of different plots possible and frustrating the reader's desire for narrative closure. Micaela Janan contends that since unsatisfied ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale and Edwardsville
Date Published: 1994
Description: Hardback, with dustwrapper. Has a remainder (black pen) mark to the bottom edge otherwise is in almost as new condition. [From the cover] “Janan contends that since unsatisfied desire structures both the experience of reading Catullus as well as its subject matter, critical interpretation of the text demands a ‘poetics of desire'. She proposes an original and evocative feminist reading of Catullus, a reading informed by theories of consciousness as ancient as Plato and as contemporary as Freud ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Date Published: 15/06/2006
ISBN-13:9780809317653ISBN:0809317656
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Date Published: 1994-01-01
ISBN-13:9780809317653ISBN:0809317656
Description: New. 0809317656 Contending that the topic of erotic desire holds the key to some inherent problems of interpretation in literary studies, classical and postclassical alike, Janan offers a postmodern, feminist critique of the earliest-known reasonably complete body of Western lyric poetry.204p (Southern Illinois UP 1994). 9780809317653. Hardback. read more
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