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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780533803321

Titolo

Ovid and the Renaissance body / / edited by Goran V. Stanivukovic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

9786612014338

1-282-01433-1

1-4426-7819-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Disciplina

809.9335

Soggetti

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

English poetry - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

English drama - 17th century - History and criticism

Sex in literature

Human body in literature

Critiques litteraires.

Livres numeriques.

Literary criticism

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Ovid and the Renaissance body / Goran V. Stanivukovic -- Ovidian subjectivities in early modern lyric / Carla Freccero -- Imagining heterosexuality in the Epyllia / Jim Ellis -- Inversion, metamophosis, and sexual difference / Mark Dooley -- A garden of her own / Morgan Holmes -- Male deformities / Mario Digangi -- Arms and the women / Ian Frederick Moulton -- Localizing disembodied voice in Sandy's Englished 'Narcissus and Echo' / Gina Bloom -- The Ovidian hermaphrodite / Michael Pincombe -- Ovid and the dilemma of the cuckold in English Renaissance drama / Bruce Boehrer -- Lyrical



wax in Ovid, Marlowe, and Donne / Raphael Lyne -- Engendering metamorphoses / Elizabeth Sauer -- The girl he left behind / Judith Deitch -- If that which is lost be not found / Lori Humphrey Newcomb -- Afterword / Valerie Traub.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of original essays uses contemporary theory to examine Renaissance writers' reworking of Ovid's texts in order to analyze the strategies in the construction of the early modern discourses of gender, sexuality, and writing.