Shakespeare's Erotic Mythology and Ovidian Renaissance Culture Book Information:

disciplinary and comparative approaches to the volumes subject, this exciting collection of essays offers a reassessment of Shakespeares erotic and Ovidian mythology within classical and continental aesthetic contexts. Through extensive examination of mythological visual and textual material, scholars explore the transmission and reinvention of Ovidian eroticism in Shakespeares plays to show how early modern artists and audiences collectively engaged in redefining ways of thinking pleasure. Within the collections broad-ranging investigation of erotic mythology in Renaissance culture, each chapter analyses specific instances of textual and pictorial transmission, reception, and adaptation. Through various critical strategies, contributors trace Shakespeares use of erotic material to map out the politics and aesthetics of pleasure, unravelling the ways in which mythology informs artistic creation. Received acceptions of neo-platonic love and the Petrarchan tensions of unattainable love are revisited, with a focus on parodic and darker strains of erotic desire, such as Priapic and Dionysian energies, lustful fantasy and violent eros. The dynamics of interacting tales is explored through their structural ability to adapt to the stage. Myth in Renaissance culture ultimately emerges not merely as near-inexhaustible source material for the Elizabethan and Jacobean arts, but as a creative process in and of itself.

• Book Type/Genre :

Literary Theory, History & Criticism

• Book Binding :

Hardcover

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

Page count varies on each edition/reprint

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• Shakespeare's Erotic Mythology and Ovidian Renaissance Culture Published On :

2013

• Resource:

Literature & Fiction, Literary Theory, History & Criticism Book is recommended for Students, Teachers, Graduates, Professionals, and all bibliophiles

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