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Desiring bodies : Ovidian romance and the cult of form / Gregory Heyworth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heyworth, Gregory, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
- Literature, Medieval.
- Literature, Medieval--Roman influences.
- 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.
- Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Influence.
- Ovid.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (377 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Gregory Heyworth's Desiring Bodies considers the physical body and its relationship to poetic and corporate bodies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
- Contents:
- Hunting for civilization: Marie de France and the sociology of romance
- Economies of romance: systems of value in Chretien 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:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780268081607
- 0268081603
- OCLC:
- 762936164
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