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Serious Play : Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto / Robert Hanning.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Leonard Hastings Schoff LecturesPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231152105
  • 9780231526395
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.917 22
LOC classification:
  • PN56.C66 H36 2010
  • PN56.C66 H36 2010
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Ovid's Amatory Poetry: Rome in a Comic Mirror -- 2. Chaucer: Dealing with the Authorities; Or, Twisting the Nose Th at Feeds You -- 3. Ariosto's Orlando Furioso: Confusion Multiply Confounded; Or, Astray in the Forest of Desire -- In Conclusion (or Inconclusion) -- Epilogue -- Index
Summary: Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto, premodern Europe's three greatest comic poets, found abundant cause for laughter in the foibles and follies of human desire. Yet they also excelled at the dangerous game of skewering the elites on whom they depended for patronage. The resulting depictions of addled lovers and rattled rulers create a unique dynamic of trenchant critique wrapped in amusing, enlightening, and disturbing fantasy, an achievement hailed as serio ludere, serious play, by Renaissance theorists.Through 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Ovid's Amatory Poetry: Rome in a Comic Mirror -- 2. Chaucer: Dealing with the Authorities; Or, Twisting the Nose Th at Feeds You -- 3. Ariosto's Orlando Furioso: Confusion Multiply Confounded; Or, Astray in the Forest of Desire -- In Conclusion (or Inconclusion) -- Epilogue -- Index

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Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto, premodern Europe's three greatest comic poets, found abundant cause for laughter in the foibles and follies of human desire. Yet they also excelled at the dangerous game of skewering the elites on whom they depended for patronage. The resulting depictions of addled lovers and rattled rulers create a unique dynamic of trenchant critique wrapped in amusing, enlightening, and disturbing fantasy, an achievement hailed as serio ludere, serious play, by Renaissance theorists.Through 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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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