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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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Propertius: Elegies Book IV
• Author: Gregory Hutchinson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780521525619
• ISBN: 0521525616
• ID: 04092357
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 374 g
• Dimensions: 148 × 215 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. August 2006

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