Desiring bodies : Ovidian romance and the cult of form / Gregory Heyworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heyworth, Gregory, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Literature, Medieval--Roman influences.

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

Ovid.

Human body in literature.

Desire in literature.

Romances--History and criticism.

Romances.

Romances, English--History and criticism.

Romances, English.

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

English literature.

Physical Description:

xvii, 357 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2009]

Summary:

The first comparative, diachronic study of romance form in many years, Desiring Bodies is a persuasive and important cultural history that demonstrates Ovid's pervasive influence not only on the poetics but on the politics of the medieval and early modern Western tradition.

Contents:

Hunting for civilization: Marie de France and the sociology of romance

Economies of romance: systems of value in Chrétien de Troyes

States of union: maiestas, marriage, and the politics of coercion in the Canterbury tales

Missing bodies and changed forms: literal metamorphosis in Petrarch's Rime sparse

Playing for time: generic disunities and ludic dimensions in Romeo and Juliet

Legends of the fall: epic flights and indecorous descents in Paradise lost.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780268031060

0268031061

OCLC:

290438143