Rhetoric of the Body From Ovid to Shakespeare

Informationen zum Autor Lynn Enterline holds a distinguished chair in the department of English at Vanderbilt University, USA, where she specializes in 16th century British literature, classical reception, the histories of rhetoric and emotion, gender studies, and literary theory. Her publications include The Tears of Narcissus: Melancholia and Masculinity in Early Modern Writing (1995), The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare (2000) and Shakespeare's Schoolroom: Rhetoric, Discipline, Emotion (2012). Klappentext Profoundly original study of Ovid's troubling presence in Renaissance representations of gender and desire. Zusammenfassung This persuasive book describes the complex! often violent connections between body and voice in Ovid's Metamorphoses and works by Petrarch! Marston and Shakespeare. Lynn Enterline brilliantly reveals how Ovid's stories of violence and desire disturb Renaissance conceptions of authorship and what makes the difference between male and female experience. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; 1. Pursuing Daphne; 2. Medusa's mouth: body and voice in the Metamorphoses; 3. Embodied voices: autobiography and fetishism in the Rime Sparse; 4. 'Be not obsceane though wanton': Marston's Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image; 5. 'Poor instruments' and unspeakable events in The Rape of Lucrece; 6. 'You speak a language that I understand not': the rhetoric of animation in The Winter's Tale; Notes; Index.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lynn (Vanderbilt University Enterline, Lynn Enterline
• Con la collaborazione di: Anne Barton (Editore), Stephen Orgel (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 14.12.2006
• Categoria: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata
• EAN: 9780521034654
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03465-4
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Renaissan > 35