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.Bodies, in Ovidian romance, are the objects of human desire to possess, to recover, to form, or to violate. Part 1...