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

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. Acknowledgements 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 3.1 Section I: analysis of elegiac discourse 3.1.1 Ideological context: the problem of power relations 3.1.2 Elegy as fallax opus: the "elegiac estrangement" 3.1.2.1 Critical landscape and methodological considerations 3.1.2.2 Elegy: agonistic poetry 3.2 Section II: "the elegiac" in the Metamorphoses: meta-poetry and power relations Section I. Et amando et amare fatendo: Fiction and suprafiction 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 Propertius 2,13 Propertius 1,8 and 3,23 Propertius 2,26 Propertius 2,34 Propertius 1,1 Ars Amatoria 1,455-458 and Heroides 20 and 21 Propertius 2,11 and 3,2 3. Te mihi materiem felicem in carmina praebe: the puella as subject matter Catullus 68b Tibullus 1,4 Propertius 1,15 Propertius 2,3 Propertius 2,32 Propertius 2,28 Propertius 2,1 Ovid, Amores 1,1 Ovid, Amores 1,3 Ovid, Amores 1,10 Ovid, Amores 2,17 Das Ziel der neuen Reihe und der zugehörigen Zeitschrift Trends in Classics ist es, fachübergreifende Studien aus allen Bereichen der Klassischen Philologien zu versammeln, die in innovativer Weise Theorien und Methoden benachbarter Disziplinen wie Narratologie, Intertextualitätsforschung, Rezeptionsästhetik und oral poetics in ihren Forschungen anwenden. Die Reihe Trends in Classics steht Monographien ebenso offen wie Editionen, Konferenzbänden und Aufsatzsammlungen. Sie wird für die aktuellen Debatte, welche Rolle die Klassischen Philologien in den modernen Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaft This Book Aims To Offer A New Approach To The 'vexata Quaestio' Of 'the Elegiac' In Ovid's 'metamorphoses'. Through A Challenging Re-contextualization Of Some Well-known Passages, The Author Focuses On The Poetological Meaning Of Elegiac Power Play And Its Integration Within Ovid's Poem On Changing Forms. This Twofold Analysis Grants The Reader A Thought-provoking Insight Into Ovid's Poetics Of Generic Assimilation. José Manuel Blanco Mayor. Includes Bibliography And Indexes.