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The rhetoric of the body from Ovid to Shakespeare /

This persuasive book describes the complex, often violent connections between body and voice in Ovid's Metamorphoses and works by Petrarch, Marston and Shakespeare. Lynn Enterline brilliantly reveals how Ovid's stories of violence and desire disturb Renaissance conceptions of authorship an...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Enterline, Lynn, 1956-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Series:Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 35.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Pursuing Daphne
  • 2. Medusa's mouth: body and voice in the Metamorphoses
  • 3. Embodied voices: autobiography and fetishism in the Rime sparse
  • 4. "Be not obsceane though wanton": Marston's Metamorphosis of Pigmalions image
  • 5. "Poor instruments" and unspeakable events in The rape of Lucrece
  • 6. "Your speak a language that I understand not": the rhetoric of animation in The winter's tale
  • Notes
  • Index.