The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare

Dados Bibliográficos

ID23769713
AutoresLynn Enterline (Vanderbilt University, autor correspondente)
Ano2000
Data de publicação2000-05-11
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoRhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511483561
OpenAlexW4298453926
ISBN9780511483561
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas18

This persuasive book analyses the complex, often violent connections between body and voice in Ovid's Metamorphoses and narrative, lyric and dramatic works by Petrarch, Marston and Shakespeare. Lynn Enterline describes the foundational yet often disruptive force that Ovidian rhetoric exerts on early modern poetry, particularly on representations of the self, the body and erotic life. Paying close attention to the trope of the female voice in the Metamorphoses, as well as early modern attempts at transgendered ventriloquism that are indebted to Ovid's work, she argues that Ovid's rhetoric of the body profoundly challenges Renaissance representations of authorship as well as conceptions about the difference between male and female experience. This vividly original book makes a vital contribution to the study of Ovid's presence in Renaissance literature.

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Early Modern literature · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Poetry · Rhetoric · The Renaissance · Trope (literature) · Early Modern Spanish Literature · Philosophy · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies