Serious play : desire and authority in the poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto /

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Comic poets are inspired best by the bittersweet nature of their art-the thrill of skewering the world's power elite while nevertheless being dependent on their support. Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto were extremely attuned to the dynamics of this relationship, with Ovid suffering most from his com...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hanning, Robert W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.
Colección:University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures.
Temas:
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Criticism and interpretation.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400 > Criticism and interpretation.
Ariosto, Lodovico, > 1474-1533 > Criticism and interpretation.
Ariosto, Lodovico, > 1474-1533
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Comic, The, in literature.
Desire in literature.
Authority in literature.
Comique dans la littérature.
Désir dans la littérature.
Autorité dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Authority in literature
Comic, The, in literature
Desire in literature
Autorität > Motiv
Begierde > Motiv
Komik
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ovid's amatory poetry: Rome in a comic mirror
  • Chaucer: dealing with the authorities; or, Twisting the nose that feeds you
  • Ariosto's Orlando Furioso: confusion multiply confounded; or, Astray in the forest of desire.

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