Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Hui Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Andrew Hui, Assistant Professor of Humanities Andrew (Yal Hui
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9780823274314
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-7431-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Verbal Arts; Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics; Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies