Catullan Provocations
  Acknowledgments

 expand sectionIntroduction
 expand sectionChapter 1  The Collection and Its Author
 expand sectionChapter 2  Catullus and the Reader  The Erotics of Poetry
 collapse sectionChapter 3  Obscenity Figures
 •Obscenity at Rome
 •Irrumation and the Silent Victim
 •Staining Without Being Stained
 •Compromising Positions, Bifurcated Sensations
 •Obscenity and Closure
 •Obscene Relations, Interchangeable Bodies
 expand sectionChapter 4  Urbanity  The Poetry of Exclusion
 expand sectionChapter 5  The Wronged Lover and the Poet's Isolation
 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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