The poetics of ruins in Renaissance literature

The poetics of ruins in Renaissance literature / Andrew Hui.

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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Main Author: Hui, Andrew, 1980-
Format: eBook
Language:English
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.
ART > History > Renaissance.
European poetry > Renaissance
Ruins in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780823273386
0823273385
9780823273393
0823273393

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