Propertius and the poetics of the book

1.18 And 3.15–17

Bibliographic Data

ID9399282
AuthorsThomas Phillips (0000-0002-3002-9176, University of Worcester, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume57
Pages105-135
Publication date2011-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Cambridge Classical Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1750-2705 • E-ISSN: 2047-993X
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/s1750270500001299
OpenAlexW2334814379
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited50

Questions of how ancient books were produced, how they were valued and what they represented in particular contexts, and how they interacted with the texts inscribed on them have been increasingly to the fore in recent years. This article will focus on the last of these questions, firstly examining the local role of material inscription in a single poem of Propertius, and then moving on to consider issues pertaining to the structure of the collection and how approaches to the poetry book are conditioned by and interact with its materiality. Central to this analysis is a conception of the book not as a neutral purveyor of meanings which exist outside it, but as a part of the processes by which meaning is created and maintained

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Inscribed figure · Literature · Materiality (auditing · Meaning (existential · Poetics · Poetry · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Mathematics · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy

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