La metamorphose dans les Metamorphoses d’Ovide
Etude sur l'art de la variation
by Helene Vial
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(June 2010)
ISBN: 9782251328799
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Une etude sur les Metamorphoses, quinze livres consacres aux origines du monde, aux grandes legendes mythologiques et a la transformation des humains en animaux, en vegetal, en mineral
English summary: As in the Nereides’ facies non omnibus una, non diuersa tamen (Mt., II, 13-14) – poetic writing in the passages which Ovid dedicated to metamorphosis in his Metamorphoses is characterised by a subtle balance between similarities and dissimilarities: that which seems to always have to be the same story – that of the miracle of corporal transformation, a unique and comprehensive theme announced in the very first verses and vertiginously depicted right up to the final uiuam – is, however, never the same, thanks to such resourceful deployment of the art of variation that each new evocation of the mutata forma is turned into an absolutely unique writing and reading experience. This study spotlights the dual poetic realities of metamorphosis and variatio – describing their respective mechanisms, defining the nature of the organic link forged between them with each new verse, and analysing the relationship between this alliance and the Ovidean concept of writing. French description: Telle la facies non omnibus una, non diuersa tamen des Nereides (Met., II, 13-14), l’ecriture poetique des passages consacres par Ovide a la metamorphose dans les Metamorphoses se caracterise par un equilibre subtil entre similitudes et dissemblances: ce qui semble devoir etre toujours le meme recit (celui du miracle de la transformation des corps, sujet unique et total annonce des les premiers vers et vertigineusement decline jusqu’au uiuam final) n’est pourtant jamais semblable, tant l’art de la variation deploie de ressources, transformant chaque nouvelle evocation de la mutata forma en une experience d’ecriture et de lecture absolument singuliere. C’est sur ces deux realites poetiques jumelles, la metamorphose et la variatio, que porte la presente etude, attachee tout a la fois a en decrire les ressorts respectifs, a definir la nature du lien organique qui, au fil des vers, se noue entre elles et a analyser le rapport entre cette alliance et la conception ovidienne de l’ecriture. Ancienne eleve de l’Ecole Normale Superieure de Fontenay- Saint-Cloud, agregee de lettres classiques et docteur en etudes latines, Helene Vial est maitre de conferences de latin a l’Universite Blaise Pascal de Clermont-Ferrand. Specialiste de l’oeuvre ovidienne a laquelle elle a consacre communications et articles, elle elargit a present sa reflexion a l’etude des relations entre poesie et rhetorique, un theme illustre par le titre de son dernier colloque: La variatio : l’aventure d’un principe d’ecriture, de l’Antiquite au XXIe siecle .
Introduction : metamorphoses de la metamorphose ovidienne
Premiere partie : Les contours indistincts : frontieres de la metamorphose.I. L'absence de metamorphose, forme premiere de la variationII.Deux formes materielles extremes de la metamorphoseIII.Ivresse de la metamorphose?
Deuxieme partie : Fragments d'une cartographie imaginaire : les recits de metamorphoses.Prologue : naissances humainesI.L'eau, matiere vitale de la metamorphose ovidienneII.La terre, entre reveries de la volonte et reveries du reposIII.L'air et les songesIV.Les apotheoses ou le poeme pentavalent
Troisieme partie : Le poeme inepuisableI.A l'oeuvre : Lieux et formes poetiques de la variationII.L'art de la variation, ou dire l'indicible
Conclusion : la transparence, l'oxymore et la fuite.Annexe : Recits de metamorphoses
Bibliographie selectiveIndices nominum et locorum
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