Ovid and the Renaissance body / edited by Goran V. Stanivukovic.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stanivukovic, Goran V.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Influence.

Ovid.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.

English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English poetry.

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

English drama.

Sex in literature.

Human body in literature.

Physical Description:

vi, 281 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2001]

Summary:

This collection of original essays uses contemporary theory to examine Renaissance writers' reworking of Ovid's texts in order to analyze the strategies in the construction of the early modern discourses of gender, sexuality, and writing.

Contents:

Introduction: Ovid and the Renaissance body / Goran V. Stanivukovic

Pt. I: Identification and Desire. Ovidian subjectivities in early modern lyric: identification and desire in Petrarch and Louise Labé / Carla Freccero

Imagining heterosexuality in the Epyllia / Jim Ellis

Inversion, metamophosis, and sexual difference: female same-sex desire in Ovid and Lyly / Mark Dooley

A garden of her own: Marvell's nymph and the order of nature / Morgan Holmes

'Male deformities': Narcissus and the reformation of courtly manners in Cynthoa's Revels / Mario Digangi

Arms and the women: the Ovidian eroticism of Harington's Ariosto / Ian Frederick Moulton

Part II: Speech, Voice, and Embodiment. Localizing disembodied voice in Sandy's Englished 'Narcissus and Echo' / Gina Bloom

The Ovidian hermaphrodite: moralizations by Peend and Spenser / Michael Pincombe

Ovid and the dilemma of the cuckold in English Renaissance drama / Bruce Boehrer

Part III: Textualization. Lyrical wax in Ovid, Marlowe, and Donne / Raphael Lyne

Engendering metamorphoses: Milton and the Ovidian corpus / Elizabeth Sauer

The girl he left behind: Ovidian imitatio and the body of Echo in Spenser's 'Epithalamion' / Judith Deitch

'If that which is lost be not found': monumental bodies, spectacular bodies in The Winter's Tale / Lori Humphre Newcomb

Afterword / Valerie Traub.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0802035159 :

OCLC:

46626746