Desiring bodies [electronic resource] : Ovidian romance and the cult of form / Gregory Heyworth.
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TextPublication details: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2009.Description: xvii, 357 pSubject(s): - 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 -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
- 809/.933561 22
- PN681.5 .H49 2009
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.
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