The elegiac persona and sincerity in Propertius
This article proposes to discuss the construction of the elegiac persona in Propertius, starting from the understanding of what elegiac love would be and how the elegiac poets had a systematic elaboration to sing about this feeling. For this system to work, two characters were fundamental: the passi...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) |
| Repositorio: | Codex : Revista de Estudos Clássicos |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/58908 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/CODEX/article/view/58908 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Propércio Elegia persona Cíntia Elegia romana Literatura Latina Propertius elegy Cynthia Roman elegy Latin Literatura |
| Resumo: | This article proposes to discuss the construction of the elegiac persona in Propertius, starting from the understanding of what elegiac love would be and how the elegiac poets had a systematic elaboration to sing about this feeling. For this system to work, two characters were fundamental: the passionate lover and a beloved woman, here, Propertius and Cynthia, respectively. The creation of these characters results in what Paul Veyne presents as an “elegiac game”, this game is fundamentally anchored in the notion ofpersona and mainly in verisimilitude and rhetorical sincerity. Therefore, the elegiac game is guided by the ambiguous relationship between what appears to be real and what is certainly fictional, and this is configured solely as a matter of style necessary for the systematics of elegiac love to take effect. In this way, both Propertius and Cynthia can be read as personae and poetic artifice. |
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