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Frame, glass, verse : the technology of poetic invention in the English Renaissance / Rayna Kalas.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR535.F7 K35 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kalas, Rayna, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Frame-stories--History and criticism.
- Frame-stories.
- Poetics--History--16th century.
- Poetics.
- History.
- Mirrors in literature.
- Invention (Rhetoric).
- Renaissance--England.
- Renaissance.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the Renaissance and its period frames
- The frame before the work of art
- The craft of poesy and the framing of verse
- The tempered frame
- Poetic offices and the conceit of the mirror
- Poesy, progress, and the perspective glass
- "Shakes-speare's sonnets" and the properties of glass
- Coda : the material sign and the transparency of language.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-238) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780801445415
- 0801445418
- OCLC:
- 81252692
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