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Serious Play : Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto /
Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto, premodern Europe's three greatest comic poets, found abundant cause for laughter in the foibles and follies of human desire. Yet they also excelled at the dangerous game of skewering the elites on whom they depended for patronage. The resulting depictions of addled l...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press,
[2010]
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| Colección: | Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Ovid's Amatory Poetry: Rome in a Comic Mirror
- 2. Chaucer: Dealing with the Authorities; Or, Twisting the Nose Th at Feeds You
- 3. Ariosto's Orlando Furioso: Confusion Multiply Confounded; Or, Astray in the Forest of Desire
- In Conclusion (or Inconclusion)
- Epilogue
- Index