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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hui, Andrew, 1980-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
Series:Verbal arts--studies in poetics.
Modern language initiative.
Subjects:
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.
Aesthetic of Ruins.
Cultural Philology.
Du Bellay.
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.
Monuments.
Petrarch.
Poetic Immortality.
Renaissance Aesthetics.
Spenser.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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