Frame, Glass, Verse : The Technology of Poetic Invention in the English Renaissance

In a book that draws attention to some of our most familiar and unquestioned habits of thought--from "framing" to "perspective" to "reflection"--Rayna Kalas suggests that metaphors of the poetic imagination were once distinctly material and technical in character. Kalas...

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Bibliographic Details
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: ITHACA : CORNELL University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Renaissance.
Poetics.
Mirrors in literature.
Invention (Rhetoric)
Frame-stories.
English poetry > Early modern.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Renaissance > Angleterre.
Invention (Rhetorique)
Poetique > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Recits enchâsses > Histoire et critique.
Renaissance > England.
Poetics > History > 16th century.
Frame-stories > History and criticism.
English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Renaissance and Its Period Frames
  • 1. The Frame before the Work of Art
  • 2. The Craft if Poesy and the Framing of Verse
  • 3. The Tempered Frame
  • 4. Poetic Offices and the Conceit of the Mirror
  • 5. Poesy, Progress, and the Perspective Glass
  • 6. "Shakes-speare's Sonnets" and the Properties of Glass
  • Coda: The Material Sign and the Transparency of Language
  • Notes
  • Index

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