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  1. Serious play
    desire and authority in the poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Columbia Univ. Press, New York [u.a.]

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  2. Serious play
    desire and authority in the poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Columbia Univ. Press, New York [u.a.]

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780231152105; 0231152108; 9780231526395; 0231526393
    Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures
    Subjects: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.--Criticism and interpretation; Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400--Criticism and interpretation; Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533--Criticism and interpretation; Comic, The, in literature; Desire in literature; Authority in literature
    Scope: XVIII, 286 S.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  3. Serious play
    desire and authority in the poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    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... more

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    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 comedic missteps. Their audacity and acute insight are the very elements that make their work so appealing centuries after their subjects have stumbled off the stage. Through a careful and imaginative analysis of Ovid's amatory poetry, Chaucer's dream poems and excerpts from the Canterbury Tal Ovid's amatory poetry: Rome in a comic mirror -- Chaucer: dealing with the authorities; or, Twisting the nose that feeds you -- Ariosto's Orlando Furioso: confusion multiply confounded; or, Astray in the forest of desire

     

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