The poetics of ruins in Renaissance literature /

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The book argues that the Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as category of discourse that inspired voluminous poetic production. By examining Petrarch, Du Bellay, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Spenser, and Shakespeare, Hui explains how writers used the ruin to think about the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hui, Andrew, 1980-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
Colección:Verbal arts--studies in poetics.
Modern language initiative.
Temas:
1450-1600
European poetry > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism.
Ruins in literature.
Poésie européenne > 1450-1600 (Renaissance) > Histoire et critique.
Ruines dans la littérature.
ART > History > Renaissance.
European poetry > Renaissance
Ruins in literature
Aesthetic of Ruins.
Cultural Philology.
Du Bellay.
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.
Monuments.
Petrarch.
Poetic Immortality.
Renaissance Aesthetics.
Spenser.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The book argues that the Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as category of discourse that inspired voluminous poetic production. By examining Petrarch, Du Bellay, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Spenser, and Shakespeare, Hui explains how writers used the ruin to think about their relationship to classical antiquity.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780823273386
0823273385
9780823273393
0823273393

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