Introspection and Engagement in Propertius: A Study of Book 3Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Starting Points -- Reception of Book 3 -- Contextual Considerations -- Reading Propertius Book 3 -- Textual Notes -- Chapter 1 Turning Elegy Upside Down -- Elegiac Expansion - 3.1 -- From Amor to Roma -- Erotic Regression - 3.2 -- Recapitulation and Coda - 3.3 -- Chapter 2 Seeking Fides in Poets and Poetry -- The Metapoetry of Propertian Love -- Elegiac Narration and the Fictional Contract -- Constructing Fides -- Deconstructing Fides -- Chapter 3 Thematic Experimentation -- 3.9 - Addressing Maecenas -- 3.10 and the Recovery of Theme -- A 'Birthday' Poem -- The Birth of Cynthia -- Propertius 3.11 -- Exemplarity and Elegy's Ideological Tensions -- Chapter 4 Marriage and the Elegiac Woman -- Setting (Us) Up -- (Re- )claiming Augustan Fides -- The Unlikely Orthodoxy of Propertian Elegy -- Chapter 5 Delays and Destinations -- In Medias Res -- Postponing 'the End' -- Chapter 6 A Hymn to Bacchus -- Bacchic Oppositions -- Bacchic Integration -- Looking Ahead to Caesar -- Chapter 7 In Lament for Marcellus -- Returning to Baiae -- Marcellus and the Gens Claudia -- Propertius' Roman Elegy -- Chapter 8 Renewing an Elegiac Contract -- Faithful Lovers and Elegiac Puellae -- Being Faithful in Literary Love -- Closure and Renewal -- Chapter 9 Breaking up (with) Cynthia -- An Elegiac Ending -- Catullan Background -- Ovidian Reflection -- A Romantic Ending -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index Locorum |
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Introspection and Engagement in Propertius: A Study of Book 3 Jonathan Wallis No preview available - 2018 |
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