The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature / / Andrew Hui.
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 bo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Color Plates
- Introduction. A Japanese Friend
- Part I
- Chapter 1. The Rebirth of Poetics
- Chapter 2. The Rebirth of Ruins
- Part II
- 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