Serious play : desire and authority in the poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto

Serious play : desire and authority in the poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto /

Comic poets are inspired best by the bittersweet nature of their art-the thrill of skewering the world's power elite while nevertheless being dependent on their support. Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto were extremely attuned to the dynamics of this relationship, with Ovid suffering most from his com...

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Main Author: Hanning, Robert W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.
Series:University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures.
Subjects:
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Criticism and interpretation.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400 > Criticism and interpretation.
Ariosto, Lodovico, > 1474-1533 > Criticism and interpretation.
Ariosto, Lodovico, > 1474-1533
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Comic, The, in literature.
Desire in literature.
Authority in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Authority in literature
Comic, The, in literature
Desire in literature
Autorität > Motiv
Begierde > Motiv
Komik
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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