| The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature Contributor(s): Hui, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 0823274314 ISBN-13: 9780823274314 Publisher: Modern Language Initiative OUR PRICE: $29.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Renaissance - Art | History - Renaissance |
| LCCN: 2017287202 |
| Series: Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6" W x 9" (0.90 lbs) 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hui, Andrew: - Andrew Hui is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Yale-NUS College, Singapore. |