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The poetics of ruins in Renaissance literature /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Verbal arts--studies in poetics.
Modern language initiative. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Color Plates; Introduction: A Japanese Friend; Part: I; 1. The Rebirth of Poetics; 2. The Rebirth of Ruins; Part: II; 3. Petrarch's Vestigia and the Presence of Absence; 4. The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and the Erotics of Fragments; 5. Du Bellay's Cendre and the Formless Signifier; 6. Spenser's Moniment and the Allegory of Ruins; Epilogue: Fallen Castles and Summer Grass; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Color plates.