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Fordham University Press, New York
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Oxford University Press, Oxford
When we think of ruins and literature, we usually think of Romanticism. The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature dislodges this critical commonplace by locating European literature's fascination with architectural decay in the aesthetic culture...
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Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
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When we think of ruins and literature, we usually think of Romanticism. The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature dislodges this critical commonplace by locating European literature's fascination with architectural decay in the aesthetic culture from Petrarch to Spenser.
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...
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Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt / Zentrale
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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
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Color Plates; 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; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Color plates.
