The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Art History, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
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Author: Andrew Hui ISBN: 9780823273362
Publisher: Fordham University Press Publication: January 2, 2017
Imprint: Modern Language Initiative Language: English
Author: Andrew Hui
ISBN: 9780823273362
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication: January 2, 2017
Imprint: Modern Language Initiative
Language: English

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.

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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.

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