{"product_id":"ovids-art-and-the-wife-of-bath-paperback","title":"Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarilynn Desmond\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOvid's Art and the Wife of Bath\u003c\/i\u003e examines how Ovid's \u003ci\u003eArs amatoria\u003c\/i\u003e shaped the erotic discourses of the medieval West. The \u003ci\u003eArs amatoria\u003c\/i\u003e circulated in medieval France and England as an authoritative treatise on desire; consequently, the sexualities of the medieval West are haunted by the imperial Roman constructions of desire that emerge from Ovid's text. The \u003ci\u003eArs amatoria\u003c\/i\u003e ironically proposes the erotic potential of violence, and this aspect of the \u003ci\u003eArs\u003c\/i\u003e proved to be enormously influential. Ovid's discourse on erotic violence provides a script for Heloise's epistolary expression of desire for Abelard. The \u003ci\u003eRoman de la Rose\u003c\/i\u003e extends the directives of the \u003ci\u003eArs\u003c\/i\u003e with a rhetorical flourish and poetic excess that tests the limits of Ovidian irony. While Christine de Pizan critiqued the representations of erotic violence in the \u003ci\u003eRose\u003c\/i\u003e, Chaucer appropriates the Ovidian discourse from the \u003ci\u003eRoman de la Rose\u003c\/i\u003e to construct the Wife of Bath--a female figure that today's readers find uncannily familiar. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWell written and provocative, this book will interest scholars of premodern literature, especially those who work on Medieval English and French, as well as classical, texts. Marilynn Desmond draws on feminist and queer theory, which places \u003ci\u003eOvid's Art and the Wife of Bath\u003c\/i\u003e at the cutting edge of debates in gender and sexuality.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarilynn Desmond is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eReading Dido: Gender, Textuality, and the Medieval Aeneid\u003c\/i\u003e; coauthor of \u003ci\u003eMyth, Montage, and Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture\u003c\/i\u003e; and editor of \u003ci\u003eChristine de Pizan and the Categories of Difference\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 9.22 x 6.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 02, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51779983147296,"sku":"9780801473173","price":79.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/cd95ed2de35ebce813ca3f5bbfeffd67.webp?v=1780521003","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/ovids-art-and-the-wife-of-bath-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}