Ovid and the Renaissance Body.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-OCT-03

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Ovid and the Renaissance Body. Ed. by GORAN V. STANIVUKOVIC. Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2001. vii+281 pp. $65; 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-3515-9.

In his introduction to Ovid and the Renaissance Body Goran V. Stanivukovic asserts that the vivid corporeality of Ovid's poetry, with its 'ambivalence, anxiety, pain and pleasure' (p. 6), provided a literary resource which enabled Renaissance writers to engage forcefully with issues of selfhood and the body. The body which is most in evidence in this introductory piece is a straw man, a composite of all earlier commentators on the Renaissance Ovidian tradition--'a pretheoretical phase of scholarship on...

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