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100 1 $aHanning, Robert W.
245 10 $aSerious play :$bdesire and authority in the poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto /$cRobert W. Hanning.
260 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$cc2010.
300 $axviii, 286 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aUniversity seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aOvid'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.
520 $aThrough an imaginative analysis of Ovid's amatory poetry, Chaucer's dream poems and excerpts from the Canterbury Tales, and Ariosto's epic Orlando Furioso, Robert W. Hanning illuminates the contrast and continuities in often hilarious, always empathetic representations of bungled desire and thwarted political authority. He also documents the response of all three poets to the "authority" of cultural predecessors and poetic convention. Each poet lived through exciting times (Augustan Rome, Late-medieval London, and high-Renaissance Italy, respectively) and their outsider-insider status links them as memorable speakers of comedic truth to power. Providing fresh perspectives on Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto within their rich historical moments, Serious Play isolates the elements that make their work so appealing centuries after they lived, observed, and wrote.
650 0 $aComic, The, in literature.
650 0 $aDesire in literature.
650 0 $aAuthority in literature.
600 00 $aOvid,$d43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aChaucer, Geoffrey,$d-1400$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aAriosto, Lodovico,$d1474-1533$xCriticism and interpretation.
830 0 $aUniversity seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures.
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