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Concatenatio Catulliana
Paul Claes
其他書名
A New Reading of the Carmina
出版BRILL, 2019-10-01
主題Literary Criticism / Ancient & ClassicalLiterary Criticism / Medieval
ISBN90044090419789004409040
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Dvb7EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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-five 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 fit 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.