TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hui,Andrew
TI  - The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature
T2  - Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
SN  - 9780823273355
U1  - 809.02 
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Fordham University Press, 
KW  - Art & Visual Culture
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Renaissance Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aesthetic of Ruins
KW  - Cultural Philology
KW  - Du Bellay
KW  - Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
KW  - Monuments
KW  - Petrarch
KW  - Poetic Immortality
KW  - Renaissance Aesthetics
KW  - Spenser
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures and Color Plates --; Introduction. A Japanese Friend --; Part I --; Chapter 1. The Rebirth of Poetics --; Chapter 2. The Rebirth of Ruins --; Part II --; Chapter 3. Petrarch's Vestigia and the Presence of Absence --; Chapter 4. The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and the Erotics of Fragments --; Chapter 5. Du Bellay's Cendre and the Formless Signifier --; Chapter 6. Spenser's Moniment and the Allegory of Ruins --; Epilogue. Fallen Castles and Summer Grass --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823273379
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823273379
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823273379/original
ER  -