Propertius: Modernist Poet of Antiquity

by D. Thomas Benediktson

An examination of Propertius in light of nonclassical, modernist literary techniques, especially internal monologue or stream of consciousness and imagism.

Classical writers typically try to order or shape disparate experiences while modernists seek to present the complexity and disarray of human experience. Failing to realize that Propertius is in the modernist camp has led previous textual critics to divide and reorganize his poems. A...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809314533
• ISBN13: 9780809314539
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"