“Abusive” Catullus: Friendly Lyrics in Translation by A.A. Fet and by S.V.Shervinskij

Student: Maksimenko Diana

Supervisor: Natalia Samokhvalova

Educational Programme: Philology (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2016

For more than five hundred years of commenting and interpreting of Catullus` poems in various ways paradoxically today the considerable part of the Catullus` corpus, namely abusive lyrics, stays unexplored. This project will examine the peculiarity of poet`s abusive verses addressed to friends with special attention to obscene lexemes and scrutinizes also their reflection in Fet`s and Shervinsky's Russian translations in the conditions of strict censorship. This research will be based not only on the qualitative, but also on the quantative methods that minimizes a subjective factor.

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