Medieval Ovid - Frame Narrative and Political Allegory

Informationen zum Autor Amanda J. Gerber is Assistant Professor at Eastern New Mexico University, USA. Klappentext Ovid's Metamorphoses played an irrefutably important role in the integration of pagan mythology in Christian texts during the Middle Ages. This book is the only study to consider this Ovidian revival as part of a cultural shift disintegrating the boundaries between not only sacred and profane literacy but also between academic and secular politics. Zusammenfassung Ovid's Metamorphoses played an irrefutably important role in the integration of pagan mythology in Christian texts during the Middle Ages. This book is the only study to consider this Ovidian revival as part of a cultural shift disintegrating the boundaries between not only sacred and profane literacy but also between academic and secular politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Reframing the Frame Narrative 2. Rethinking Ovid: The Commentary Tradition 3. Communal Narrative: Boccaccio and the Historical Paraphrase Tradition 4. Clerical Expansion and Narrative Diminution in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 5. Overlapping Mythologies: The Political Afterlives of Frame Narratives in Gower's Confessio Amantis and Lydgate's Fall of Princes 6. Conclusion

List of contents

1. Introduction: Reframing the Frame Narrative 2. Rethinking Ovid: The Commentary Tradition 3. Communal Narrative: Boccaccio and the Historical Paraphrase Tradition 4. Clerical Expansion and Narrative Diminution in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 5. Overlapping Mythologies: The Political Afterlives of Frame Narratives in Gower's Confessio Amantis and Lydgate's Fall of Princes 6. Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: A Gerber, A. Gerber, Amanda J. Gerber
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.03.2015
• EAN: 9781137488398
• ISBN: 978-1-137-48839-8
• No. of pages: 163
• Series: The New Middle Ages; New Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; B, Cultural History, Social & cultural history, Literature: history & criticism, Civilization—History, Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval, Classical literature, Classical and Antique Literature, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Palgrave Literature Collection, Medieval Literature, Literature, Medieval, Medieval Literature;Middle Ages;Ovid