Ovid and the Renaissance Body 1st Edition by Goran Stanivukovic ISBN 9781442678194 1442678194
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ISBN 10: 1442678194
ISBN 13: 9781442678194
Author: Goran Stanivukovic
Body has been one of the main preoccupations of current Renaissance historiography and current critical theory. Both the literary representation of the body and the construction of the material body in Renaissance anatomical and medical discourses have been used to explore the dynamics of early modern sexuality, gender, and society. Yet the influence of Ovid’s texts on the construction of the Renaissance discourses of gender, sexuality, and subjectivity has not been fully explored.
This collection of original essays uses contemporary theory to examine Renaissance writers’ reworking of Ovid’s texts in order to analyze the strategies in the construction of the early modern discourses of gender, sexuality, and writing. The volume is divided into three parts. Part I explores literary and dramatic allusions to Ovid in relation to early modern ideologies of subjectivity and anxieties about identification and desire. Part II illustrates the appropriation of Ovidian myths by poets and dramatists interested in the articulation of agency. Part III demonstrates how various points of intertextuality between Ovid and English Renaissance writers ranging from Marlowe to Milton contributed to early modern epistemologies and discourse of embodiment, spectatorship, and print culture.
This collection of original essays uses contemporary theory to examine Renaissance writers’ reworking of Ovid’s texts in order to analyze the strategies in the construction of the early modern discourses of gender, sexuality, and writing.
Table of contents:
Introduction: Ovid and the Renaissance Body
Part I:Identification and Desire
Ovidian Subjectivities in Early Modern Lyric: Identification and Desire in Petrarch and Louise Labé
Imagining Heterosexuality in the Epyllia
Inversion, Metamorphosis, and Sexual Difference: Female Same-Sex Desire in Ovid and Lyly
A Garden of Her Own: Marvell’s Nymph and the Order of Nature
‘Male deformities’: Narcissus and the Reformation of Courtly Manners in Cynthia’s Revels
Arms and the Women: The Ovidian Eroticism of Harington’s Ariosto
Part II:Speech, Voice, and Embodiment
Localizing Disembodied Voice in Sandys’s Englished ‘Narcissus and Echo’
The Ovidian Hermaphrodite: Moralizations by Peend and Spenser
Ovid and the Dilemma of the Cuckold in English Renaissance Drama
Part III:Textualization
Lyrical Wax in Ovid, Marlowe, and Donne
Engendering Metamorphoses: Milton and the Ovidian Corpus
The Girl He Left Behind: Ovidian imitatio and the Body of Echo in Spenser’s ‘Epithalamion’
‘If that which is lost be not found’: Monumental Bodies, Spectacular Bodies in The Winter’s Tale
Afterword
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
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