Serious play desire and authority in the poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto /

Serious play desire and authority in the poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto /

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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 l...

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Main Author: Hanning, Robert W
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, c2010
Series:University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures
Subjects:
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D > Criticism and interpretation.
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D > Criticism and interpretation.
Ariosto, Lodovico, > 1474-1533 > Criticism and interpretation
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > d. 1400 > Criticism and interpretation
Authority in literature
Comic, The, in literature
Desire in literature
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