The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare / Lynn Enterline.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Enterline, Lynn, 1956-

Series:

Cambridge books online.

Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture ; no. 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body in literature.

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism.

European literature.

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

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

This persuasive book analyses the complex, often violent connections between body and voice in Ovid's Metamorphoses and narrative, lyric and dramatic works by Petrarch, Marston and Shakespeare. Lynn Enterline describes the foundational yet often disruptive force that Ovidian rhetoric exerts on early modern poetry, particularly on representations of the self, the body and erotic life. Paying close attention to the trope of the female voice in the Metamorphoses, as well as early modern attempts at transgendered ventriloquism that are indebted to Ovid's work, she argues that Ovid's rhetoric of the body profoundly challenges Renaissance representations of authorship as well as conceptions about the difference between male and female experience. This vividly original book makes a vital contribution to the study of Ovid's presence in Renaissance literature.

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ISBN:

9780511483561

9780521624503

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