Gail Trimble
Biographic Data
| ID | 5635834 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gail Trimble |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gail |
| FAMILY NAME | Trimble |
| SIGNATURE | TRIMBLE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Catullus
Catullus' longest poem, a miniature epic or 'epyllion' that tells two apparently unrelated mythological stories, is a central text in the Roman literary tradition. Allusive, exquisite, and sometimes shocking, it offers a profound exploration of human connection and aesthetic response against a backdrop of universal history. This major new edition addresses the interpretative challenges of the poem on every level of detail. The corrupt text is new…
Narrative and Lyric Levels in Catullus
This chapter revisits the challenges of thinking about narrative metalepsis in lyric contexts by considering the diverse corpus of Catullus. Catullus’ most obviously narrative poem—poem 64—offers rich possibilities for metaleptic readings, and the chapter particularly investigates the ways in which the boundary between the poem’s outer narrative and its inset, ostensibly ecphrastic story is navigated by two powerfully subjective presences, the na…
Metalepsis
Echoes and Reflections in Catullus’ Long Poems
Catullus 64 and the Prophetic Voice in Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue
This chapter argues that poets use discursive similarities in the representation of past and present to emphasize the real discontinuities. In this sense, Eclogue 4, in the way that it borrows signal elements of the prophecies that conclude Catullus 64, historicizes that poem and its cultural perspective, relegating them to the past and articulating for the present that it thereby creates a more hopeful vision of the future.
Catullus 64
Catullus and the tragedy of Ariadne
Les allusions bien connues aux prologues tragiques dans le proème du Carmen 64 de Catulle soulèvent des questions sur les relations génériques entre tragédie, épopée et épyllion, relations qui encouragent le lecteur du poème à voir l’ekphrasis d’Ariane tout entière comme une tragédie. Telle que Catulle la présente, l’histoire d’Ariane possède un prologue qui situe la scène, une rhesis centrale, un climax tragique et un deus ex machina ; elle a au…
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Catullus and the tragedy of Ariadne
Les allusions bien connues aux prologues tragiques dans le proème du Carmen 64 de Catulle soulèvent des questions sur les relations génériques entre tragédie, épopée et épyllion, relations qui encouragent le lecteur du poème à voir l’ekphrasis d’Ariane tout entière comme une tragédie. Telle que Catulle la présente, l’histoire d’Ariane possède un prologue qui situe la scène, une rhesis centrale, un climax tragique et un deus ex machina ; elle a au…
Catullus 64
Catullus 64 and the Prophetic Voice in Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue
This chapter argues that poets use discursive similarities in the representation of past and present to emphasize the real discontinuities. In this sense, Eclogue 4, in the way that it borrows signal elements of the prophecies that conclude Catullus 64, historicizes that poem and its cultural perspective, relegating them to the past and articulating for the present that it thereby creates a more hopeful vision of the future.
Echoes and Reflections in Catullus’ Long Poems
Narrative and Lyric Levels in Catullus
This chapter revisits the challenges of thinking about narrative metalepsis in lyric contexts by considering the diverse corpus of Catullus. Catullus’ most obviously narrative poem—poem 64—offers rich possibilities for metaleptic readings, and the chapter particularly investigates the ways in which the boundary between the poem’s outer narrative and its inset, ostensibly ecphrastic story is navigated by two powerfully subjective presences, the na…
Metalepsis
Catullus
Catullus' longest poem, a miniature epic or 'epyllion' that tells two apparently unrelated mythological stories, is a central text in the Roman literary tradition. Allusive, exquisite, and sometimes shocking, it offers a profound exploration of human connection and aesthetic response against a backdrop of universal history. This major new edition addresses the interpretative challenges of the poem on every level of detail. The corrupt text is new…
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