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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466045503321

Autore

Mayor Jose Manuel Blanco

Titolo

Power play in latin love elegy and its multiple forms of continuity in Ovid's metamorphoses / / Jose Manuel Blanco Mayor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

3-11-048865-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 pages)

Collana

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, , 1868-4785 ; ; Volume 42

Disciplina

811.0093548

Soggetti

Elegiac poetry, American - History and criticism

Elegiac poetry, American

Elegiac poetry

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. The intertextual relations between Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Latin elegy: a critical assessment -- 2. Methodological considerations -- 3. Power relations in elegy and “the elegiac” in Ovid’s Metamorphoses -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Insidias legi, magne poeta, tuas: the puella de-codes the text -- 3. Te mihi materiem felicem in carmina praebe: the puella as subject matter -- 4. “The body-text”: the puella as literary work -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Asymmetrical love in the Metamorphoses -- 3. Mutual love in the Metamorphoses: towards the ultimus ardor of Latin elegy -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index of Passages Cited -- Index of Names and Subjects

Sommario/riassunto

Conceived as a necessary reconsideration of the pristine "elegiac question" in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, this book intends to offer an analysis of the function of elegiac discourse within Ovid’s magnum opus from the perspective of metapoetics. To that end, the author undertakes, in the first section, a close re-reading of some relevant passages of Latin love elegy. From a prism that takes into account the characteristically elegiac multivocality, the genre reveals itself as an



agonistic discourse in which the poet dramatises his metaliterary power-relation with the puella, who is unveiled as the synthesis of the distinct sub-products of his poetic activity. Thereupon, the author proceeds to scrutinise how elegiac elements are assimilated and transformed as they become integrated within the framework of Ovid’s poem of changing forms. Far from being a mere stylistic ornament, the presence of an elegiac register in many erotic passages tells us about Ovid’s stance towards love as a metapoetic trope. By reworking elegiac tradition to the point of transforming it into a novum corpus, the poet ultimately substantiates the mutability of generic categories.