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The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature /

The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that inspired voluminous poetic production. For humanists, the ruin became the material sign that marked the rupture between themselves and classical antiquity. In the first full-length bo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hui, Andrew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2017]
Colección:Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that inspired voluminous poetic production. For humanists, the ruin became the material sign that marked the rupture between themselves and classical antiquity. In the first full-length book to document this cultural phenomenon, Andrew Hui explains how the invention of the ruin propelled poets into creating works that were self-aware of their absorption of the past as well as their own survival in the future.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (296 p.)
ISBN:9780823273379
9783110729016
Acceso:restricted access