Ovid and the Renaissance Body
Published on 2. October 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-1-4875-2419-7 (ISBN)
Description
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. 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
426 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4875-2419-7 (9781487524197)
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Goran Stanivukovic is a professor in the English Department at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Ovid and the Renaissance Body
Goran V. Stanivukovic, Saint Mary's University
Part I: Identification and Desire
Ovidian Subjectivities in Early Modern Lyric: Identification and Desire in Petrarch and Louise Labe
Carla Freccero, University of California at Santa Cruz
Imagining Heterosexuality in the Epyllia
Jim Ellis, University of Calgary
Inversion, Metamorphosis, and Sexual Difference: Female Same-Sex Desire in Ovid and Lyly
Mark Dooley, University of Teesside
A Garden of Her Own: Marvell's Nymph and the Order of Nature
Morgan Holmes, Wilfrid Laurier University
'Male deformities': Narcissus and the Reformation of Courtly Manners in Cynthia's Revels
Mario Digangi, CUNY.
Arms and the Women: The Ovidian Eroticism of Harington's Ariosto
Ian Frederick Moulton, Arizona State University
Part II: Speech, Voice, and Embodiment
Localizing Disembodied Voice in Sandys's Englished 'Narcissus and Echo'
Gina Bloom, Lawrence University
The Ovidian Hermaphrodite: Moralizations by Peend and Spenser
Michael Pincombe, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Ovid and the Dilemma of the Cuckold in English Renaissance Drama
Bruce Boehrer, Florida State University
Part Ill: Textualization
Lyrical Wax in Ovid, Marlowe, and Donne
Raphael Lyne, New Hall, Cambridge
Engendering Metamorphoses: Milton and the Ovidian Corpus
Elizabeth Sauer, Brock University
The Girl He Left Behind: Ovidian imitatio and the Body of Echo in Spenser's 'Epithalamion'
Judith Deitch, University of Toronto
'If that which is lost be not found': Monumental Bodies, Spectacular Bodies in The Winter's Tale
Lori Humphrey Newcomb, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Afterword
Valerie Traub, University of Michigan
Contributors
Index
Introduction: Ovid and the Renaissance Body
Goran V. Stanivukovic, Saint Mary's University
Part I: Identification and Desire
Ovidian Subjectivities in Early Modern Lyric: Identification and Desire in Petrarch and Louise Labe
Carla Freccero, University of California at Santa Cruz
Imagining Heterosexuality in the Epyllia
Jim Ellis, University of Calgary
Inversion, Metamorphosis, and Sexual Difference: Female Same-Sex Desire in Ovid and Lyly
Mark Dooley, University of Teesside
A Garden of Her Own: Marvell's Nymph and the Order of Nature
Morgan Holmes, Wilfrid Laurier University
'Male deformities': Narcissus and the Reformation of Courtly Manners in Cynthia's Revels
Mario Digangi, CUNY.
Arms and the Women: The Ovidian Eroticism of Harington's Ariosto
Ian Frederick Moulton, Arizona State University
Part II: Speech, Voice, and Embodiment
Localizing Disembodied Voice in Sandys's Englished 'Narcissus and Echo'
Gina Bloom, Lawrence University
The Ovidian Hermaphrodite: Moralizations by Peend and Spenser
Michael Pincombe, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Ovid and the Dilemma of the Cuckold in English Renaissance Drama
Bruce Boehrer, Florida State University
Part Ill: Textualization
Lyrical Wax in Ovid, Marlowe, and Donne
Raphael Lyne, New Hall, Cambridge
Engendering Metamorphoses: Milton and the Ovidian Corpus
Elizabeth Sauer, Brock University
The Girl He Left Behind: Ovidian imitatio and the Body of Echo in Spenser's 'Epithalamion'
Judith Deitch, University of Toronto
'If that which is lost be not found': Monumental Bodies, Spectacular Bodies in The Winter's Tale
Lori Humphrey Newcomb, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Afterword
Valerie Traub, University of Michigan
Contributors
Index