The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature / Andrew Hui.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hui, Andrew, Author.

Series:

Verbal arts--studies in poetics.

Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ruins in literature.

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

European literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Figures and Color Plates

Introduction. A Japanese Friend

Chapter 1. The Rebirth of Poetics

Chapter 2. The Rebirth of Ruins

Chapter 3. Petrarch’s Vestigia and the Presence of Absence

Chapter 4. The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and the Erotics of Fragments

Chapter 5. Du Bellay’s Cendre and the Formless Signifier

Chapter 6. Spenser’s Moniment and the Allegory of Ruins

Epilogue. Fallen Castles and Summer Grass

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9780823273379

0823273377

9780823273362

0823273369

OCLC:

965766383