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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      17 December 1992
      ISBN:
      9780511620256
      9780521407670
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511620256
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      Dimensions:
      (198 x 129 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.255kg, 120 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Literature, Literary Theory
      Series:
      Roman Literature and its Contexts
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Classical Studies, Classical Literature, Literary Theory
    Series:
    Roman Literature and its Contexts
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    This book examines the love elegies of the Roman poets Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid from the point of view of the way the meanings attributed to the poems arise out of the interests and preoccupations of the cultural situation in which they are read. Each study is centred around a reading of a poem or poems together with a discussion of a variety of sophisticated theoretical approaches. All Latin texts and terms are translated or closely paraphrased. Although the book concentrates on the work of the Roman elegists, the challenging insights it offers into the processes involved in the reading and appropriation of the texts of the past are relevant to scholars and students of classical literature in general, and its discussion of such key issues as history, textuality, representation, discourse, gender, ideology and metaphor will be of concern to those interested in literary theory and cultural studies.

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    "What is most impressive throughout this book cannot be conveyed by any brief summary. In a practical sense, Kennedy reads elegy extremely well; his insights into particular passages and into the discourse of elegy as a whole are illuminating and important." Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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