Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath by Desmond, Marilynn
Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath by Desmond, Marilynn

Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath

Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath examines how Ovid's Ars amatoria shaped the erotic discourses of...
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Author: Marilynn Desmond
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Language: English
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Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath by Desmond, Marilynn

Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath

CHF 81.61
Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath by Desmond, Marilynn

Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath

CHF 81.61
Author: Marilynn Desmond
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath examines how Ovid's Ars amatoria shaped the erotic discourses of the medieval West. The Ars amatoria circulated in medieval France and England as an authoritative treatise on desire; consequently, the sexualities of the medieval West are haunted by the imperial Roman constructions of desire that emerge from Ovid's text. The Ars amatoria ironically proposes the erotic potential of violence, and this aspect of the Ars proved to be enormously influential. Ovid's discourse on erotic violence provides a script for Heloise's epistolary expression of desire for Abelard. The Roman de la Rose extends the directives of the Ars with a rhetorical flourish and poetic excess that tests the limits of Ovidian irony. While Christine de Pizan critiqued the representations of erotic violence in the Rose, Chaucer appropriates the Ovidian discourse from the Roman de la Rose to construct the Wife of Bath--a female figure that today's readers find uncannily familiar.

Well written and provocative, this book will interest scholars of premodern literature, especially those who work on Medieval English and French, as well as classical, texts. Marilynn Desmond draws on feminist and queer theory, which places Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath at the cutting edge of debates in gender and sexuality.

Author: Marilynn Desmond
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 05/02/2006
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.26w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9780801473173

About the Author

Marilynn Desmond is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University. She is the author of Reading Dido: Gender, Textuality, and the Medieval Aeneid; coauthor of Myth, Montage, and Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture; and editor of Christine de Pizan and the Categories of Difference.


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