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Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and Its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid's >Metamorphoses

Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and Its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid's >Metamorphoses

Blanco Mayor, José Manuel

Hardcover

Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, Book 42

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 311048661X
ISBN13: 9783110486612
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: Feb 20 2017
Pages: 391
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

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.

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