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Restoring to Catullus a provocative power that familiarity has tended to dim, this book argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. Fitzgerald shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own consumption as it explores the terms and possibilities of the poet's license. Reading the poetry in relation to the drama of position played out between poet, poem, and reader, the author produces a fresh interpretation of almost all of Catullus's oeuvre. Running through the book is an analysis of the ideological stakes behind the construction of the author Catullus in twentieth-century scholarship and of the agenda governing the interpreter's position in relation to Catullus.

Epigrams, Latin --- -Love poetry, Latin --- -Verse satire, Latin --- -Elegiac poetry, Latin --- -Latin elegiac poetry --- Latin poetry --- Latin verse satire --- Latin love poetry --- Latin epigrams --- History and criticism --- Catullus, Gaius Valerius --- -Catul --- Catull --- Catulle --- Catulli, C. Valerii --- Catullo, Gaio Valerio --- Catullus, C. Valerius --- Catullus, Gaius Valerius, --- Catullus, Gajus Valerius --- Catulo --- Katull, Gaǐ Valeriǐ --- Katullus, Kaius Valerius --- Valerio Cátulo, Cayo --- Катулл --- Criticism and interpretation --- Rome --- In literature. --- Elegiac poetry, Latin --- Love poetry, Latin --- Verse satire, Latin --- History and criticism. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Catul --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Catullus, Caius Valerius --- aesthetic. --- ancient rome. --- ariadne. --- asinius. --- bithynia. --- caelius. --- caesar. --- callimachus. --- calvus. --- catullus. --- cicero. --- classic poetry. --- classicism. --- death. --- erotics. --- isolation. --- literary criticism. --- literary theory. --- literature. --- lyric poetry. --- myths. --- nonfiction. --- obscenity. --- poet. --- poetics. --- poetry theory. --- poetry. --- roman literature. --- roman poetry. --- urbanity.

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Recent decades have seen a marked shift in approaches to cultural analysis, with the critical role of location and spatial experience in the formation of the human subject gaining increasing prominence. Henri Lefebvre's La Production de l'Espace (1974), a seminal work in what is now called the 'spatial turn' in the humanities, stresses that space is to be included among the sites of hegemonic power and ideological contestation in a society: it is not simply a neutral setting within which human action takes place. This idea has obvious relevance to the study of ancient Rome, in which space was formative, yet also contested, and could be endowed with cultural meaning by the uses its citizens made of it and the ways in which they put it into play.This volume applies the insights and concerns of the 'spatial turn' to this specifically Roman engagement with space, and explores its representation and manipulation in Latin literature. The terrain covered by the contributions is broad, both temporally (from Catullus to St Augustine) and in terms of genre, with lyric, epic, elegy, satire, epistolography, and historiography all finding their place. Discussions focus mainly on movement and the mobile subject in the experience and making of space, rather than fixed monumental space within which a subject moves and acts. Offering a detailed exploration of Roman engagement with space, the ideological stakes of this engagement, and its intersections with empire, urbanism, identity, ethics, exile, and history, the volume contains a wealth of insights for readers across and beyond the discipline of classical studies: those looking equally for new approaches to ancient texts and authors or to explore the relationship between the materiality of antiquity and its literary aspects will find these discussions illuminating.

Littérature latine. --- Latin literature --- Histoire et critique --- History and criticism. --- Latein. --- Latin literature. --- Literatur. --- Raum. --- Space in literature. --- Littérature latine --- Histoire et critique. --- E-books --- Littérature latine

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This book explores the presence of slaves and slavery in Roman literature and asks particularly what the free imagination made of the experience of living with slaves, beings who both were and were not fellow humans. As a shadow humanity, slaves furnished the free with other selves and imaginative alibis as well as mediators between and substitutes for their peers. As presences that witnessed their owners' most unguarded moments they possessed a knowledge that was the object of both curiosity and anxiety. The book discusses not only the ideological relations of Roman literature to the institution of slavery, but also the ways in which slavery provided a metaphor for a range of other relationships and experiences, and in particular for literature itself. It is arranged thematically and covers a broad chronological and generic field.

Arts and Humanities --- History --- Latin literature --- Slavery in literature. --- Slavery --- Slaves --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Slavery in literature --- History and criticism --- Enslaved persons in literature

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"Explores prayer as a rhetorical art, examining situations, strategies, and performative modes of discourse directed to the divine"--Provided by publisher.

Performance --- Prayer --- Rhetoric

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The idea of variety may seem too diffuse, obvious, or nebulous to be worth scrutinizing, but modern usage masks the rich history of the term. This book examines the meaning, value, and practice of variety from the vantage point of Latin literature and its reception and reveals the enduring importance of the concept up to the present day. William Fitzgerald looks at the definition and use of the Latin term varietas and how it has played out in different works and with different authors. He shows that, starting with the Romans, variety has played a key role in our thinking about nature, rhetoric, creativity, pleasure, aesthetics, and empire. From the lyric to elegy and satire, the concept of variety has helped to characterize and distinguish different genres. Arguing that the ancient Roman ideas and controversies about the value of variety have had a significant afterlife up to our own time, Fitzgerald reveals how modern understandings of diversity and choice derive from what is ultimately an ancient concept.

Latin literature --- History and criticism