Catullus Archives - a dynamic reader https://adynamicreader.com/tag/catullus/ creating readings for creative readers Sun, 24 May 2020 14:10:06 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://adynamicreader.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-drlogo2-32x32.png Catullus Archives - a dynamic reader https://adynamicreader.com/tag/catullus/ 32 32 127001838 ‘Breast is Best’? Rereading Catullus 64.18 https://adynamicreader.com/breast-is-best-rereading-catullus-64-18/ https://adynamicreader.com/breast-is-best-rereading-catullus-64-18/#respond Sun, 26 Aug 2018 13:41:06 +0000 https://adynamicreader.com/?p=5239 Negotiating a neologism in Catullus 64. Is ‘nutrices’ a point of ingress into a world of myth (and art), an intertextual trigger, a distraction cloaking a temporal and thematic shift, a narrative device utilising the male gaze? All these and more?

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]]> https://adynamicreader.com/breast-is-best-rereading-catullus-64-18/feed/ 0 5239 Building an intertextual network with lions – Part 2 https://adynamicreader.com/building-an-intertextual-network-with-lions-part-2/ https://adynamicreader.com/building-an-intertextual-network-with-lions-part-2/#respond Fri, 10 Mar 2017 22:07:01 +0000 https://adynamicreader.com/?p=289 A return to allusive space. Fallible memory and fictional memory. Tracking weavers of text and following poetic threads in Ovid’s Metamorphoses; from the daughters of Minyas to the Fates, from Rome to Alexandria and back again.

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]]> https://adynamicreader.com/building-an-intertextual-network-with-lions-part-2/feed/ 0 289 Building an intertextual network with lions – Part 1 https://adynamicreader.com/building-an-intertextual-network-with-lions-part-1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2017 23:58:05 +0000 https://adynamicreader.wordpress.com/?p=184 Once upon a time in the wilds of Babylon, Thisbe saw a lion. But I saw three... An exploration of allusive space and what lurks within: Ovidian lions mixing with Theocritean lions merging with Catullan lions. How many intertexts make a pride?

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