The poetics of ruins in Renaissance literature / Andrew Hui.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hui, Andrew, 1980- author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Verbal arts--studies in poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ruins in literature.

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism.

European literature.

Physical Description:

x, 282 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780823273355

0823273350

OCLC:

950450798