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  title info:
    title: Propertius' Cynthia
    sub title: the book as beloved
  name:
    name part: Franklinos, T. E. (Tristan Emil)
    name part: 1989-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: "Propertius' Cynthia considers Propertius' metapoetic and intra- and intertextual habits and their relationship with the repetitious amatory discourse that he fashions for himself with his beloved, Cynthia. Where scholarship tends to treat as separate the metaliterary and the amatory aspects of Propertius' poetry, this volume - focussed on Books 3 and 4 - argues that his discussion of his own poetry and of his relationship to it as an author-figure - his metapoetic commentary - is closely married to, and can be clearly mapped onto, his account of his relationship with Cynthia, especially in Books 1-3. Moreover, it demonstrates that the amorous discourse the elegist fashions is constituted of a poetics of repetitiousness that is apt for the articulation of an elegiac relationship that, by its nature, cannot progress. The encounters between Propertius and Cynthia are repetitive, and the poet mirrors these in his recollection of lexical and thematic aspects of earlier poems in later ones. Each poem provides a fragmentary glance at Propertius' relationship and, through repetitions with variation, the elegist shapes his readers' understanding of his amatory discourse. Furthermore, it is argued that, since his beloved is the embodiment of his poetry, Propertius' account of his changing relationship with her allows him to articulate the transformations of his elegiac corpus; this becomes most significant as the close of Book 3 appears to end their relationship and he begins a radical experimentation with the generic bounds of elegy that is expanded in Book 4, where the polyvalent Vertumnus embodies the poet's work."--Publisher.
  abstract: 'Propertius' Cynthia' considers Propertius' metapoetic and intra- and intertextual habits and their relationship with the repetitious amatory discourse that he fashions for himself with his beloved, Cynthia.
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: T.E. Franklinos.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Propertius, Sextus
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Propertius, Sextus
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Propertius, Sextus
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Propertius, Sextus
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Elegiac poetry, Latin
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Poésie élégiaque latine
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Literature: history & criticism
  subject:
    topic: Literature
  classification: PA6646 .F73 2025
  classification: 874/.01
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Propertius' Cynthia
    name:
      name part: Franklinos, T. E. (Tristan Emil), 1989-
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
    identifier: (DLC) 2024941129
    identifier: (OCoLC)1443716541
  identifier: 9780198940265
  identifier: 0198940262
  identifier: 9780198940234
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 240905
    record change date: 20260319205129.2
    record identifier: in00005727404
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng