Product Description: Gregory Heyworth’s Desiring Bodies considers the physical body and its relationship to poetic and corporate bodies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Beginning in the odd contest between body and form in the first sentence of Ovid’s protean Metamorphoses, Heyworth identifies these concepts as structuring principles of civic and poetic unity and pursues their consequences as refracted through a series of romances, some typical of the genre, some problematically so...read more

Product Description: Practical & user-friendly guide to accurate and persuasive writing. Simplifies grammar and editing. Cuts directly to writers’ most frequent errors. Every chapter is a self-contained lesson, with clear explanations, examples, and step-by-step short cuts to clear expression...read more