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Author Heyworth, Gregory, 1967-

Title Desiring bodies [electronic resource] : Ovidian romance and the cult of form / Gregory Heyworth.

Imprint Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2009.

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Description xvii, 357 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Hunting for civilization: Marie de France and the sociology of romance -- Economies of romance: systems of value in Chretien 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780268031060 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0268031061 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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