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Poetry in a World of Things - Aesthetics and Empiricism in Renaissance Ekphrasis (Paperback)
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Poetry in a World of Things - Aesthetics and Empiricism in Renaissance Ekphrasis (Paperback)
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We have become used to looking at art from a stance of detachment.
In order to be objective, we create a "mental space" between
ourselves and the objects of our investigation, separating internal
and external worlds. This detachment dates back to the early modern
period, when researchers in a wide variety of fields tried to
describe material objects as "things in themselves"--things, that
is, without the admixture of imagination. Generations of scholars
have heralded this shift as the Renaissance "discovery" of the
observable world. In Poetry in a World of Things, Rachel Eisendrath
explores how poetry responded to this new detachment by becoming a
repository for a more complex experience of the world. The book
focuses on ekphrasis, the elaborate literary description of a
thing, as a mode of resistance to this new empirical objectivity.
Poets like Petrarch, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare crafted
highly artful descriptions that recovered the threatened subjective
experience of the material world. In so doing, these poets
reflected on the emergence of objectivity itself as a process that
was often darker and more painful than otherwise acknowledged. This
highly original book reclaims subjectivity as a decidedly poetic
and human way of experiencing the material world and, at the same
time, makes a case for understanding art objects as fundamentally
unlike any other kind of objects.
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