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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791596503321

Autore

Heyworth Gregory <1967->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2009

ISBN

0-268-08160-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Disciplina

809/.933561

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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