Catullan Provocations
  Acknowledgments

 expand sectionIntroduction
 expand sectionChapter 1  The Collection and Its Author
 expand sectionChapter 2  Catullus and the Reader  The Erotics of Poetry
 expand sectionChapter 3  Obscenity Figures
 expand sectionChapter 4  Urbanity  The Poetry of Exclusion
 collapse sectionChapter 5  The Wronged Lover and the Poet's Isolation
 •Lesbia and Catullus: Surface and Depth
 •The Language of Aristocratic Obligation
 •The Poet on the Threshold
 •The Rhetoric of Aristocratic Obligation
 •Catullus and Lesbia: Inside and Outside the Poem
 expand sectionChapter 6  Gazing at the Golden Age  Belatedness and Mastery in Catullus 64
 expand sectionChapter 7  The Ruse of the Victim  Poems 10 and 11
 expand sectionChapter 8  The Death of a Brother  Displacement and Expression
  Chapter 9  Between Men  Catullan Literature
  Conclusion

 expand sectionNotes
  Bibliography
 expand sectionGeneral Index
  Index of Catullun Poems Cited
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