Desiring Bodies: Ovidian Romance and the Cult of Form Book

Desiring Bodies: Ovidian Romance and the Cult of Form, Gregory Heyworth's Desiring Bodies considers the physical body and its relationship to poetic and corporate bodies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Beginning in the odd contest between body and form in the first sentence of , Desiring Bodies: Ovidian Romance and the Cult of Form

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Desiring Bodies: Ovidian Romance and the Cult of Form
Written by author Gregory Heyworth
Published by University of Notre Dame Press, July 2009
Gregory Heyworth's Desiring Bodies considers the physical body and its relationship to poetic and corporate bodies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Beginning in the odd contest between body and form in the first sentence of
The first comparative, diachronic study of romance form in many years, Desiring Bodies is a persuasive and important cultural history that demonstrates Ovid's pervasive influence not only on the poetics but on the politics of the medieval and early modern

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Acknowledgments and Note on Translation vii

Polemical Preface ix

Introduction 1

Part I The Sociology of Romance

1 Hunting for Civilization: Marie de France and the Sociology of Romance 25

2 Economies of Romance: Systems of Value in Chrétien de Troyes 59

3 States of Union: Maiestas, Marriage, and the Politics of Coercion in the Canterbury Tales 103

Part II Romance Form and Formality

4 Missing Bodies and Changed Forms: Literal Metamorphosis in Petrarch's Rime sparse 179

5 Playing for Time: Generic Disunities and Ludic Dimensions in Romeo and Juliet 229

6 Legends of the Fall: Epic Flights and Indecorous Descents in Paradise Lost 261

List of Abbreviations 295

Notes 297

Bibliography 325

Index 349

Title: Desiring Bodies: Ovidian Romance and the Cult of Form

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Publication Date: July 2009

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Heigh : 9.000 cm (3.54 inches)

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