Catullus Through his Books Dramas of Composition Schafer Hardback 9781108472241
Catullus Through his Books\n\nDramas of Composition\n\nA new, holistic reading of Catullus emerges from convincing solutions to centuries-old problems concerning the nature of his surviving text.\n\nJohn Kyrin Schafer (Author)\n\n9781108472241, Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 19 March 2020\n\n320 pages\n23.5 x 15.8 x 1.9 cm, 0.51 kg\n\n'\u2026 a book with which every expert of Catullus will have to confront himself and that certainly testifies the intelligence, acuity and even the esprit de finesse of its author.' Sergio Audano, Resenas Reviews\n\nModern readings of the Roman poet Catullus' work have always been constrained by doubts about the surviving text. Does the sequence of our corpus reflect the artistically coherent and meaningful arrangement of the poems? Why are the various parts of the collection so jarringly different in content and emotional tone? To what extent, if at all, can we explain these shifts by appealing to Catullus' famously vivid portrayals ]
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