3. Power relations in elegy and “the elegiac” in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

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