Desiring bodies

Heyworth, Gregory, 1967-

Desiring bodies Ovidian romance and the cult of form / [electronic resource] : Gregory Heyworth. - Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2009. - xvii, 357 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hunting for civilization: Marie de France and the sociology of romance -- Economies of romance: systems of value in Chr�etien 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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






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


Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
Literature, Medieval--Roman influences.
Human body in literature.
Desire in literature.
Romances--History and criticism.
Romances, English--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700


Electronic books.

PN681.5 / .H49 2009

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