Heyworth, Gregory. Desiring bodies : Ovidian romance and the cult of form

Folger bibliographic ID: 230110
Folger call number: PN681.5 .H49 2009
Folger holdings ID: 276319

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

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

Extended title: Desiring bodies : Ovidian romance and the cult of form / Gregory Heyworth

Literature, Medieval Human body in literature Desire in literature Romances Romances, English English literature Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D

author: Heyworth, Gregory, 1967-
subject: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D