The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Fordham University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
Release date:	2017
Authors:	Andrew Hui
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / Cloth
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-0-8232-7335-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
LSN:	0-8232-7335-0
Barcode:	9780823273355

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