ENGLISH

The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
9780511009532, 0521624509, 0511483562, 0511009534, 9780511483561, 9780521624503
LCC
PN56.B62 E58 2000
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
997 kB (1020889 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
Pages
286\286
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This persuasive book describes the complex, often violent connections between body and voice in Ovid's Metamorphoses and narrative, lyric and dramatic works by Petrarch, Marston and Shakespeare. Lynn Enterline analyzes what happens when Renaissance authors revisit Ovid's stories of violence and desire, paying close attention to the ways in which his subversive representations of gender, sexuality and the body influence later conceptions of the self and erotic life. This vividly original book makes a profound contribution to the study of Ovid's presence in Renaissance literature.

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