Concatenatio Catulliana
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Brill (NL) |
| ISBN-13 | 9789004409040 |
| Total publications | 7 |
| Coverage period | 2002 - 2002 |
| Language | EN |
| Cited by | 15 |
| h-index | 1 |
| i10-index | 1 |
The arrangement of Catullus' Carmina is one of those controversial issues that in-cite respectable commentators to take up extreme positions. In 1914, the German scholar Bernhard Schmidt described the collection as 'a wild chaos'. Forty-ve years later, his compatriot Otto Weinreich riposted with the laconic statement: 'Chaos? Cosmos!' Former attempts to detect a structure in the collection were based on rather subjective assumptions. While translating Catullus' poetry into Dutch, Dr Claes detected an objective foundation: the principle of concatenation, i.e. the recurrence of motifs and phrases in consecutive poems. The generality of this phenomenon proves that the poet conceived of the Carmina as a coherent collection, in which the poems t like links in a chain. The discovery of this coherence suggests a new reading of Catullus, which has also implications for the constitution of the text
The Principle of Concatenation
Index of Terms
Preliminary Material
Epilogue
A Concatenary Reading of Catullus
The Arrangement of the Carmina
Concatenatio Catulliana
The arrangement of Catullus' Carmina is one of those controversial issues that in-cite respectable commentators to take up extreme positions. In 1914, the German scholar Bernhard Schmidt described the collection as 'a wild chaos'. Forty-ve years later, his compatriot Otto Weinreich riposted with the laconic statement: 'Chaos? Cosmos!' Former attempts to detect a structure in the collection were based on rather subjective assumptions. While transl…
Concatenatio Catulliana
The arrangement of Catullus' Carmina is one of those controversial issues that in-cite respectable commentators to take up extreme positions. In 1914, the German scholar Bernhard Schmidt described the collection as 'a wild chaos'. Forty-ve years later, his compatriot Otto Weinreich riposted with the laconic statement: 'Chaos? Cosmos!' Former attempts to detect a structure in the collection were based on rather subjective assumptions. While transl…
The Principle of Concatenation
Index of Terms
Preliminary Material
Epilogue
A Concatenary Reading of Catullus
The Arrangement of the Carmina
Concatenatio Catulliana
The arrangement of Catullus' Carmina is one of those controversial issues that in-cite respectable commentators to take up extreme positions. In 1914, the German scholar Bernhard Schmidt described the collection as 'a wild chaos'. Forty-ve years later, his compatriot Otto Weinreich riposted with the laconic statement: 'Chaos? Cosmos!' Former attempts to detect a structure in the collection were based on rather subjective assumptions. While transl…