The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature Andrew Hui.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hui, Andrew, 1980- 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 (304 pages, 8 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

First edition.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 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.

Contents:

Introduction : a Japanese friend

part I

1. The rebirth of poetics

2. The rebirth of ruins

part II

3. Petrarch's Vestigia and the presence of absence

4. The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and the erotics of fragments

5. Du Bellay's Cendre and the formless signifier

6. Spenser's Moniment and the allegory of ruins

Epilogue : fallen castles and summer grass.

Notes:

Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

0-8232-7339-3

0-8232-7338-5

OCLC:

966846095