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Paperback The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature Book

ISBN: 0823274314

ISBN13: 9780823274314

The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature

(Part of the Verbal Arts Series)

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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...

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