ISBN: 9780231526395

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, an… Mehr…

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 Tales, and Ariosto's epic Orlando Furioso, Robert W. Hanning identifies the comic mastery that turns these poets' trenchant critique into such amusing, enlightening, and disturbing fantasy. This technique, termed serio ludere, or serious play, by Renaissance theorists, is especially compelling when studied through these writers and their politically powerful audiences. Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto are not often studied together, but each lived in exciting times (Augustan Rome, late-medieval London, and high-Renaissance Italy, respectively), and their unique position as outsider-insiders afforded them the freedom to speak comedic truth to power. These poets also rebelled against the "authority" of poetic influence in their work, remaking literary convention while, at the same time, challenging political power.; PDF; Reference & Languages > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies: general > Literary studi, Dorling Kindersley Ltd<

ISBN: 9780231526395

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 dang… Mehr…

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.; EPUB; Reference & Languages > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies: general > Literary studi, Columbia University Press<

2010, ISBN: 9780231526395

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Columbia University Press, Kindle Ausgabe, 308 Seiten, Publiziert: 2010-09-23T00:00:00.000Z, Produktgruppe: Digital Ebook Purchas, Antike & Mittelalter, Literatur & Fiktion, Kategorien, Bücher, Lyrik, Gattungen & Stilrichtungen, Literaturgeschichte & -kritik, Bewegungen & Epochen, Italienische Literatur, Europäische Literatur, Regionen & Kulturkreise, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Belletristik, Fremdsprachige eBooks, Kindle eBooks, Kindle-Shop, Politik & Sozialwissenschaften, Klassiker, Englische eBooks, Nach Sprache, Kritik & Theorie, Geschichte & Kritik, Weltliteratur, Format: Kindle eBook, Columbia University Press, 2010<

2010, ISBN: 9780231526395

Columbia University Press, Kindle Edition, 308 Seiten, Publiziert: 2010-09-23T00:00:00.000Z, Produktgruppe: Digital Ebook Purchas, Literary Theory & Movements, History & Criticism, Poetry… Mehr…

Columbia University Press, Kindle Edition, 308 Seiten, Publiziert: 2010-09-23T00:00:00.000Z, Produktgruppe: Digital Ebook Purchas, Literary Theory & Movements, History & Criticism, Poetry, Drama & Criticism, Subjects, Books, Poetry & Poets, Italian, Regional & Cultural, Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences, Literary Criticism, Literature & Fiction, Kindle eBooks, Categories, Kindle Store, Medieval, Movements & Periods, Format: Kindle eBook, Columbia University Press, 2010<

ISBN: 9780231526395

Serious Play - Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid Chaucer and Ariosto: ab 79.49 € eBooks > Fachthemen & Wissenschaft > Literaturwissenschaft Columbia University Press eBook als ep… Mehr…

Serious Play - Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid Chaucer and Ariosto: ab 79.49 € eBooks > Fachthemen & Wissenschaft > Literaturwissenschaft Columbia University Press eBook als epub, Columbia University Press<