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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Medieval Ovid
    sub title: frame narrative and political allegory
  name:
    name part: Gerber, Amanda J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 163 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of 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.
  note: Amanda J. Gerber.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-158) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ovid
      name part: 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
  subject:
    topic: Frame-stories
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Rhetoric, Medieval
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ovidius Naso, P. (Publius)
      name part: 43 v. Chr.-17/18
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ovid
      name part: 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
  subject:
    topic: Frame-stories
  subject:
    topic: Rhetoric, Medieval
  classification: PA6537 .G47 2015
  classification: 18.46
  classification: 18.47
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave pivot
  related item:
    title info:
      title: New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
  identifier: 1137488395
  identifier: 9781137488398
  identifier: 9781137482747
  identifier: 9781137482822
  identifier: 1137482745
  identifier: 1137482826
  record info:
    record content source: YDXCP
    record creation date: 150128
    record change date: 20160408144530.0
    record identifier: in00003607648
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng