Desiring bodies [electronic resource] : Ovidian romance and the cult of form / Gregory Heyworth.

By: Heyworth, Gregory, 1967-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2009Description: 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 criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 809/.933561 LOC classification: PN681.5 | .H49 2009Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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