The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature
by
Andrew Hui
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
ISBN-10
0823274314
ISBN-13
9780823274314
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Imprint
Fordham University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 2nd, 2017
Print length
296 Pages
Weight
434 grams
Dimensions
23.00 x 23.10 x 0.20 cms
Product Classification:
Renaissance styleLiterary studies: generalLiterary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
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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 their relationship to classical antiquity.
The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that inspired voluminous poetic production. For humanists, the ruin became the material sign that marked the rupture between themselves and classical antiquity. In the first full-length book to document this cultural phenomenon, Andrew Hui explains how the invention of the ruin propelled poets into creating works that were self-aware of their absorption of the past as well as their own survival in the future.
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