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Medieval Ovid : frame narrative and political allegory

Title
Medieval Ovid : frame narrative and political allegory / Amanda J. Gerber.
Author
Gerber, Amanda J.
Publication
  • New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
  • ©2015

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xvi, 163 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
Medieval Ovid uncovers the impetus for the floruit of Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman story compilations throughout late medieval Western Europe. Previously disregarded as encyclopedic fodder for practicing moralizing exegesis, these works actually originate from widely disseminated (yet previously unanalyzed) commentaries used by students, scholars, and secular readers studying Ovid's composition strategies. Rather than sanitize Ovid's "Metamorphoses", most editions regarded the poem as an intricately interwoven frame narrative whose inset tales commented on each other as well as on the author's historical context as a disgruntled political exile determined to depict vitiated hegemonies throughout human history. Such readings appealed to late medieval writers in communal areas, areas that repeatedly challenged monarchic and oligarchic control, and that discovered space for socio-political discourse within Ovidian frame narratives. Here, Gerber reclassifies medieval appropriators of ancient lore, not as passive and moralizing recipients, but as active and politically motivated composers. -- Back cover.
Series Statement
  • Palgrave Pivot
  • The New Middle Ages
Uniform Title
  • Palgrave pivot.
  • New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-158) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction: Reframing the Frame Narrative -- 2. Rethinking Ovid: The Commentary Tradition -- 3. Communal Narrative: Boccaccio and the Historical Paraphrase Tradition -- 4. Clerical Expansion and Narrative Diminution in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" -- 5. Overlapping Mythologies: The Political Afterlives of Frame Narratives in Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and Lydgate's "Fall of Princes" -- 6. Conclusion.
Call Number
JFD 15-2429
ISBN
  • 1137488395
  • 9781137488398
  • 9781137482747 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781137482822 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
900913427
Author
Gerber, Amanda J., author.
Title
Medieval Ovid : frame narrative and political allegory / Amanda J. Gerber.
Publisher
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Copyright Date
©2015
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Palgrave Pivot
The New Middle Ages
Palgrave pivot.
New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-158) and index.
Research Call Number
JFD 15-2429
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