Catullan Provocations

Lyric Poetry and the Drama of Position

Bibliographic Data

ID4950840
AuthorsMicaela Janan (corresponding author)
Year1996
Volume50
Issue3/4
Pages344
Publication date1996-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeREVIEW
Review ofCatullan Provocations: Lyric Poetry and the Drama of Position, William Fitzgerald, 2023
VenuePhoenix (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8299 • E-ISSN: 1929-4883
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1192662
OpenAlexW2011330182
LanguageEN

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

Art · Drama · Economics · Literature · Poetry · Position (finance · Classical Antiquity Studies

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