Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s >Metamorphoses<

José Manuel Blanco Mayor

Published by De Gruyter 2017

Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s >Metamorphoses<

José Manuel Blanco Mayor

Volume 42 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110490282

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About this book

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.

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José Manuel Blanco Mayor, Rostock, Germany.

Reviews

"[...] the author's arguments, which are based on a detailed, logical and neatly categrorized analysis and comparison of Roman elegy and Ovid's Metamorphoses, are convincing and worthwhile."
Jo-Marie Claassen in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.01.05

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
General Introduction
1. The intertextual relations between Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Latin elegy: a critical assessment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. Methodological considerations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
3. Power relations in elegy and “the elegiac” in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
Section I. Et amando et amare fatendo: Fiction and supra-fiction in Latin love elegy. Agon and power relations as poetological expressions
1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
2. Insidias legi, magne poeta, tuas: the puella de-codes the text Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
3. Te mihi materiem felicem in carmina praebe: the puella as subject matter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
4. “The body-text”: the puella as literary work Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Section II. New perspectives in the study of “the elegiac” in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
2. Asymmetrical love in the Metamorphoses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
3. Mutual love in the Metamorphoses: towards the ultimus ardor of Latin elegy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Conclusions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
Index of Passages Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
Index of Names and Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and students of Ovid and Latin elegy; libraries, academics and institution focusing on Humanities in general
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 381
Illustrations
- Tables: 13
Keywords: Ovid's "Metamorphoses"; Latin love elegy; poetics; intertextuality

eBook

Published: February 20, 2017
ISBN: 9783110490282

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Published: February 20, 2017
ISBN: 9783110486612