Festina Lente

Progress and Delay in Ovid's Fasti

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ID9309399
AutoresTom Geue (0000-0003-0148-3393, The King's College, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume39
Fascículo2
Páginas104-129
Data de publicação2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoRamus (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0048-671X • E-ISSN: 2202-932X
EditoraCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/s0048671x0000045x
OpenAlexW2266900742
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas37

‘Wait a minute.’ Martin Amis, Time's Arrow We start with a stop. In recent years, long pause has been taken for inquest into the narrative dynamics of ancient literature. How stories are told, by whom, in what order—these have become key questions of narratology, a discipline whose tools most critics would now keep somewhere in their kit. Narratological criticism of poetry has ‘naturally’ drifted towards poems of long narrative span (i.e. hexameter epics). Recently, however, the ‘smaller’ genres have been extended the benefits of narratological civilisation, particularly in the realm of temporality. To take a loaded and leading example, Latin love elegy has been well serviced by narratology of late; what was once considered a genre ‘unfit’ for narrative, let alone narratological study, is now a prime setting for both. But it surprised me that the recent volume Latin Elegy and Narratology all but neglected Ovid's most ‘narrative’ elegy of all: the Fasti . Such an editorial decision may have been motivated by the perception that the Fasti needs no reclamation as a narrative poem; at any rate, the volume's interests lie in the processes of ‘fragmentation’, the way that elegy claims its own non-narrativity as alternative. Whatever the reasoning, I felt that the Fasti's near-relegation from this fascinating volume was something of an oversight. Many of the concerns emerging from the chapters on ‘other’ elegy can be usefully transferred to the Fasti

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