Rape and Silence : Ovid's Mythography and Medieval Readers
- Author / Editor
- Amsler, Mark.
Rape and Silence : Ovid's Mythography and Medieval Readers
- Published
- Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose, eds. Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 61-96.
- Description
- Although "mythographers allegorized Ovid's rape narratives as stories of cosmological creation or spiritual desire," Christine de Pizan presents Apollo's assault on Daphne (Épîstre d'Otha) as a disfigurement of the female body; in his tale of Philomela (LGW), Chaucer confronts the affective power of reading about sexual violence.
- Contributor
- Robertson, Elizabeth, ed.
- Rose, Christine M., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.