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 narrative, lyric and dramatic works by Petrarch, Marston and Shakespeare. Lynn Enterline analyzes what happens when Renaissance authors revisit Ovid's stories of violence and desire, paying close attention to the ways in which his subversive representations of gender, sexuality and the body influence later conceptions of the self and erotic life. This vividly original book makes a profound contribution to the study of Ovid's presence in Renaissance literature.

Author: Lynn Enterline
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 05/22/2000
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.25w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780521624503

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2000 pg. 532

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