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The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature

The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature

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Series: Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics

Art HistoryLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0823274314
ISBN13: 9780823274314
Publisher: Modern Language Initiative
Published: Jan 2 2017
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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