Desiring bodies
Subtitle: Ovidian romance and the cult of form
By: Gregory Heyworth.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780268031060
Subjects: 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 criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hunting for civilization: Marie de France and the sociology of romance; title: Economies of romance: systems of value in Chrétien de Troyes; title: States of union: maiestas, marriage, and the politics of coercion in The Canterbury tales; title: Missing bodies and changed forms: literal metamorphosis in Petrarch's Rime sparse; title: Playing for time: generic disunities and ludic dimensions in Romeo and Juliet; title: Legends of the fall: epic flights and indecorous descents in Paradise lost.