In this Book
- The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: Fordham University Press
- Series: Verbal Arts
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-vi
- Figures and Color Plates
- pp. ix-xii
- Introduction: A Japanese Friend
- pp. 1-24
- Chapter 1 The Rebirth of Poetics
- pp. 27-51
- Chapter 2 The Rebirth of Ruins
- pp. 52-86
- Epilogue Fallen Castles and Summer Grass
- pp. 231-236
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 237-238
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823273386
Related ISBN(s)
9780823273355
MARC Record
OCLC
966846095
Pages
296
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No