Propertius: Elegies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521525619)

Propertius' fourth book is his most challenging and innovative. It disrupts genre; dislocates time and order; and meditates on gender, perception and history. A sort of postmodernism combines with narrative and structural verve, incisively physical writing and a gallery of colourful characters. This edition makes a demanding and rewarding text more accessible and more intelligible. The text is new; help and fresh ideas are offered on the text and meaning of words. A wide range of literary, inscriptional and archaeological material is used to illuminate this many-sided poetry. Much more space is given than in previous editions to literary interpretation and historical contextualization, in the light of modern work. The book is approached as a dynamic sequence of poems rather than a collection. The edition should be valuable to both students and scholars.

Author: Gregory Hutchinson
ISBN-10: 0521525616
ISBN-13: 9780521525619
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2006
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.68d