Hanning, Robert W.

Serious play desire and authority in the poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto / [electronic resource] : Robert W. Hanning. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2010. - xviii, 286 p. - University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures . - University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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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.


Electronic books.

PN56.C66 / H36 2010eb

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