Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s ›Metamorphoses‹ / / José Manuel Blanco Mayor.

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• VerfasserIn: Blanco Mayor, José Manuel,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 42
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 381 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- General Introduction -- 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 -- Section I. Et amando et amare fatendo: Fiction and supra-fiction in Latin love elegy. Agon and power relations as poetological expressions -- 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 -- Section II. New perspectives in the study of “the elegiac” in Ovid’s Metamorphoses -- 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