... and Medea assume during the tragedies are dependent on their Ovidian literary history, but Seneca attempts to reclaim these characters for the tragic genre. Medea’s seeming self-awareness of her literary antecedents leads to metapoetic commentary. In the concluding act of his Medea...

...Chaucer's influence—in the troping and reinventing of the mixed-form protreptic and its metapoetic investments—has expanded far and wide. Not excluded from this influence are Thomas Usk and John Gower-Usk: the former a devotee of Chaucerian poetry and the latter a personal friend of Chaucer...

...This chapter argues that the metamorphic dance scenes in Nonnus’ epic on Dionysus encapsulate the very nature of Nonnus’ poetry. It elucidates the metapoetic role of dance with a close reading of the proem of Book 1, which is dominated by the Homeric shape-shifter Proteus. It then turns...

... who is read here in an avowedly metapoetic way, though her body has also been parsed as a vehicle for speaking of issues pertaining to gender and to socio-p­ olitical concerns.22 17 In thinking about the nature of the unrequited relationship that is portrayed between Propertius as poeta amator...

...The Conclusion draws together the main arguments of the book through reference to an Aristophanic joke about Euripidean tone. The suggestion that Euripides implicitly invites the audience to interpret his metapoetic games is framed within the context of the Athenian love of riddles...

...This chapter shows how the stories of the inventors Dercylos and Hagnon are configured in such a way as to speak for the poet himself. By means of language which consistently emits a metapoetic charge, Grattius can be seen to use these obscure figures to explore his own (equally obscure) identity...

... Alighieri Crowther Maria Kean Edmund Keats John Rawes Alan Yeats W B metapoetic poetic identity self narrative lyric Byronic hero performative human condition creativity impermanence ‘What am I? Nothing’ (Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, III. 6. 50), writes Byron. ‘Self...

... to our ability to determine whether thematic echoes indicate general knowledge of mythological material or specific allusion to other oral epic traditions). authenticity diffusion divine will embedded songs entextualization fate generic genre inauthenticity indexical potential of time metapoetic...

... the premises of his and Cynthia’s one (3.15, 3.23) are unable to succeed until the book’s end. Propertius metapoetic intratextuality discidium lover’s discourse seafaring sailing elegy love The end of what we refer to as Propertius’ third book is signalled by the perfect form, cecinit...

... earlier books through the figures of Horos (4.1), Acanthis (4.5), Cynthia (4.7, 4.8), and Cornelia (4.11), Propertius recasts his prior presentation of his amatory discourse and destabilizes one’s interpretation of it. Propertius Cynthia Cornelia Acanthis Vertumnus metapoetic intratextuality elegy...

... to lavish attention on items associated with the transfer of culture from East to West. It is argued that these descriptions are self-reflexive moments where the poem probes its own unsettling status as a translation of the Alexandrian epyllion into Latin form. But even as this metapoetic subtext voices...

... metalepsis violation of narrative registers metapoetic narrative world authorial intervention sun diplomatic activity Phaullus barbarians barbaric Cunaxa Battle of mercenaries awards benefactor imprisonment incarceration Persia Persians Caryatids indirect speech swine Arcadia Athens...

...Poetry at the Sena court was both similar to and different from—and both continuous and discontinuous with—earlier modes of literary practice. Govardhana—perhaps more than any other poet of this salon—displays discontinuity in the greatest relief and also crafts a new metapoetic frame...

... nets and deceptive snares can be seen to offer significant potential for metapoetic readings. In conclusion, this paper has examined some of the ways in which Grattius and Ovid share thematic concerns for hunting and appropriate hunting imagery as a metaphor for poetic composition. Ovid makes...

... sensationalism and the evocation of empathy for prisoners in literary texts. As an illustration of the aesthetic potential of the metaphoric prison one section provides an excursus on metapoetic treatments on the confining nature of verse. The coda to the volume attests to the ethical and political relevance...

... of dead heroes’ legacies but especially through his strategic placement of theskela erga at the end of the Catalogue of Heroes. Odysseus’ reperformance of the theskela erga, in fact, collapses all of these generic and metapoetic associations into one final devastating...

...-existing corpus, while also reframing that corpus by the addition of new material. Propertius Cynthia scripta puella intratextuality metapoetic elegy repetition lover’s discourse The opening of Propertius’ second book begins with a report of two questions and the elegist’s answer to them. He...

... in his place in posterity. Discussion of 3.4, 3.5, and 3.7 explore Propertius’ poetological use of the militia amoris and his treatment of the Gallus fragment. Propertius Callimachus Philitas Vergil Aeneid Georgics Gallus Horace militia amoris metapoetic The complex poem...

... is discussed. 3.8 and 3.10, celebrating Propertius’ and Cynthia’s continued amatory and metapoetic relationship, frame 3.9. This poem, addressed to Maecenas, implies that the poet’s ethical choice to live as a lover and to write of love is married to his composition of elegiac poetry; this is articulated...