The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare:35 (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 35)


The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare:35 (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 35)

by: Lynn Enterline (Author)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press (11 May 2000)

Language: English

Print length: 288 pages

ISBN-10: 0521624509

ISBN-13: 9780521624503

Book Description

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 mode 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 mode 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.

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