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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aHanning, Robert
_eautore
245 1 0 _aSerious Play :
_bDesire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto /
_cRobert Hanning.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c[2010]
264 4 _c©2010
300 _a1 online resource (312 p.)
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aLeonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface and Acknowledgments --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. Ovid's Amatory Poetry: Rome in a Comic Mirror --
_t2. Chaucer: Dealing with the Authorities; Or, Twisting the Nose Th at Feeds You --
_t3. Ariosto's Orlando Furioso: Confusion Multiply Confounded; Or, Astray in the Forest of Desire --
_tIn Conclusion (or Inconclusion) --
_tEpilogue --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aOvid, 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650 0 _aAuthority in literature.
650 0 _aComic, The, in literature.
650 0 _aDesire in literature.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / General.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7312/hann15210
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231526395
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