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The Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past (Paperback): Anthony Welch

The Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past (Paperback)

Anthony Welch

Series: Yale Studies in English

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This book explores why Renaissance epic poetry clung to fictions of song and oral performance in an age of growing literacy. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, Anthony Welch argues, came to view their written art as newly distinct from the oral cultures of their ancestors. Welch shows how the period's writers imagined lost civilizations built on speech and song-from Homeric Greece and Celtic Britain to the Americas-and struggled to reconcile this oral inheritance with an early modern culture of the book. Welch's wide-ranging study offers a new perspective on Renaissance Europe's epic literature and its troubled relationship with antiquity.

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Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Yale Studies in English
Release date: November 2012
First published: November 2012
Authors: Anthony Welch
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-17886-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
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LSN: 0-300-17886-7
Barcode: 9780300178869

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