me iuuat in gremio doctae legisse puellae: mindful reading in the elegies of Propertius by Franklinos, T

“…<p>In a critical climate that privileges the hermeneutic position of a reader of a text over the irretrievable intentions of its author, this thesis challenges the status quo by considering the elegist Propertius as his own first reader. Through an exploration of what I have called 'mindful reading'—how Propertius appears to engage intratextually with his own poetic material, recasting parts of it lexically and thematically—, alongside his interaction with the works of his peers and predecessors and wider cultural discourses, we, as readers, are able to appreciate how he may have understood aspects of his own poetry at a given moment. …”

PROPERTIUS IV. (P.) Fedeli, (R.) Dimundo, (I.) Ciccarelli (edd.)... by Franklinos, T