The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780521034654
Subjects: Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Semiotics & Theory; Body, Human, in literature; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: At the center of Ovid's Metamorphoses lie violated bodies.