The Poetics Of Ruins In Renaissance Literature (Verbal Arts: Studies In Poetics) - 9780823273355

The book argues that the Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as category of discourse that inspired voluminous poetic production. By examining Petrarch, Du Bellay, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Spenser, and Shakespeare, Hui explains how writers used the ruin to think about their relationship to classical antiquity.

• | Author: Andrew Hui
• | Publisher: Modern Language Initiative
• | Publication Date: Jan 02, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 296 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0823273350
• | ISBN-13: 9780823273355