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The book examines different forms of poetic subjectivity projected by ancient authors--Archilochus, Sappho, Catullus and Horace--through a close reading of both their texts and contexts. Miller argues that what is considered lyric--a short personal poem which reveals a reflexive subjective consciousness--is only possible in a culture of writing. It is the lyric collection which creates literary consciousness as we know it. This consciousness also requires a social structure where individuals can speak in their own names, not merely in that of their state or class.
| Acknowledgements | ||
| 1 | The Subject of the Text | 1 |
| 2 | Epos and Iambos Or Archilochus Meets the Wolfman | 9 |
| 3 | De Generibus Disputandum Est | 37 |
| 4 | The Garden of Forking Paths: Catullus and the Birth of the Collection | 52 |
| 5 | A Poet's Place: Sappho and the Melic Discourse of Archaic Greece | 78 |
| 6 | Sapphica Puella: The Triple-Faceted Object of Catullan Desire | 101 |
| 7 | Rome, Alexandria, and the Politics of Lyric | 120 |
| 8 | Horace, Mercury, and Augustus | 141 |
| 9 | Conclusion: Of Writings and Subjects | 169 |
| Appendix I | 178 | |
| Appendix II | 182 | |
| Notes | 184 | |
| References | 211 | |
| Index | 230 |
Overview
The book examines ...