The Rhetoric Of The Body From Ovid To Shakespeare (cambridge Studies In Renaissance Literature And Culture) (PDF)

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Synopsis

This persuasive book analyses 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 describes the foundational yet often disruptive force that Ovidian rhetoric exerts on early modern poetry, particularly on representations of the self, the body and erotic life. Paying close attention to the trope of the female voice in the Metamorphoses, as well as early modern attempts at transgendered ventriloquism that are indebted to Ovid's work, she argues that Ovid's rhetoric of the body profoundly challenges Renaissance representations of authorship as well as conceptions about the difference between male and female experience. This vividly original book makes a vital contribution to the study of Ovid's presence in Renaissance literature.

Book details

Author:
Nancy Vickers, Lynn Enterline, Anne Barton, Jonathan Dollimore, Marjorie Garber, Jonathan Goldberg, Peter Holland, Kate McLuskie, Stephen Orgel
ISBN:
9780521624503
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2018-02-06
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2000
Copyright by:
Nancy Vickers, Lynn Enterline, Anne Barton, Jonathan Dollimore, Marjorie Garber, Jonathan Goldberg, Peter Holland, Kate McLuskie, Stephen Orgel 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Nonfiction