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The Renaissance epic and the oral past /

This volume explores why Renaissance epic poetry clung to fictions of song and oral performance in an age of growing literacy. 16th- and 17th-century poets, Anthony Welch argues came to view their written art as newly distinct from the oral cultures of their ancestors.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Welch, Anthony, 1975-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012.
Collection:Yale studies in English.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Tasso's silent lyre
  • The oldest song: Ronsard and Spenser
  • Interchapter: The lutanist and the nightingale
  • Harps in Babylon: Cowley, Davenant, Butler
  • Milton's lament
  • Epic opera
  • Coda: The singer withdraws.