Pronominal Construction and Elegiac Recordatio: Textual Allusions in Ovid's Poetry

Abstract

In many elegiac poems by Ovid, the lyrical self seems to be aware of its literary existence, from the intertexts present in the Roman tradition. In other cases, the elegiac persona seems to (re)live experiences close to his/her mythical-literary reality. Thus, this study, on the one hand, intends to describe how the pronominal construct [ille + noun] assists in the development of the elegiac thematic axis of the recordatio; On the other hand, in the light of postulates concerning to the allusive art and intertextuality, it attempts to demonstrate how such textual (external) revivals contribute to the (internal) signification of Ovid's poems.