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“Heyworth has written a sophisticated study of the importance of Ovidian form in the poetics and politics of medieval and Renaissance romance . . . the author demonstrates one of Ovid’s central attributes: he was an expert historian of cu
Gregory Heyworth’s Desiring Bodiesconsiders the physical body and its relationship to poetic and corporate bodies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Beginning in the odd contest between body and form in the first sentence of Ovid’s protean Metamorphoses, Heyworth identifies these concepts as structuring principles of civic and poetic unity and pursues their consequences as refracted through a series of roman...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Desiring Bodies: Ovidian Romance and the Cult of Form | Gregory Heyworth. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
