“EVERY TIME I WRITE A RHYME / THESE PEOPLE THINK IT’S A CRIME”: PERSONA PROBLEMS IN CATULLUS AND EMINEM

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dc.contributor.authorWeiner, Jesse
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-30T09:42:00Z
dc.date.available2022-06-30T09:42:00Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThis essay interprets Eminem’s song, “Criminal” (2000, The Marshall Mathers LP, Track 18), as a Catullan project in establishing distance between the poet and poetic persona, accomplished through Catullan invective. Drawing upon pedagogical experience, I argue that Catullus (a Roman poet of the 1st Century BCE) and Eminem use analogous rhetorical tactics and structures to challenge accusations (real or imagined) of poor character stemming from their poetry. Catullus and Eminem vociferously articulate a separation of art from artist, using common transgressive poetics. Each poet disavows his own self-constructed stance of authenticity with similar threats of violence and postures of hyper-masculine dominance. In so doing, Catullus and Eminem challenge interpretative practices they elsewhere seem to assume and even encourage. Finally, I suggest that the programmatic poems of Catullus and Eminem construct similar readerly personae and that, ultimately, this confluence suggests not only a common poetics but also common discursive strategies in ancient and modern audiences. Keywords: Catullus, Eminem, hip hop, sexuality and gender studies, transgressive poetry, poetic personae, classical reception studies, poeticsen_US
dc.identifier.citationWeiner, J. (2019). “Every time I write a rhyme / These people think it’s a crime”: Persona problems in Catullus and Eminem. Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy. 6(1). http://journaldialogue.org/uncategorized/every-time-i-write-a-rhyme-these-people-think-its-a-crime-persona-problems-in-catullus-and-eminem/en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/6329
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dc.publisherDialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogyen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy;Volume 6, Issue 1 — Reinterpretation: Situating Culture from Pedagogy to Politics
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dc.title“EVERY TIME I WRITE A RHYME / THESE PEOPLE THINK IT’S A CRIME”: PERSONA PROBLEMS IN CATULLUS AND EMINEMen_US
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