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Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature

Hui Andrew
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780823274314
Publisert
2017-01-02
Utgiver
Fordham University Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
296

Forfatter
Hui Andrew

Biografisk notat

Andrew Hui is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Yale–NUS College, Singapore.

Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature

Hui Andrew
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk
Hui Andrew
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk
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"Written with a lucid, elegant sensibility and profound erudition, this study interprets anew the shifts in meaning and value of ruins from classical Latin, to the Romance languages, to English lyrics. At the heart of his analysis Hui uncovers and probes the central problems raised by thinkers on the archeology of ruins: the inner relation between literature and ruins, the ethics of finitude they embody, their future, and the place of ruins at the new beginnings of history. My mind expands as I read it, and I can easily predict others will respond the same way." -- -Giuseppe Mazzotta Sterling Professor in the Humanities for Italian, Yale University

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 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.
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List of Figures and Color Plates Introduction: A Japanese Friend Part I 1. The Rebirth of Poetics 2. The Rebirth of Ruins Part II 3. Petrarch's Vestigia and the Presence of Absence 4. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and the Erotics of Fragments 5. Du Bellay's Cendre and the Formless Signifier 6. Spenser's Moniments and the Allegory of Ruins Epilogue: Fallen Castles and Summer Grass Acknowledgments Notes Index
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Written with a lucid, elegant sensibility and profound erudition, this study interprets anew the shifts in meaning and value of ruins from classical Latin, to the Romance languages, to English lyrics. At the heart of his analysis Hui uncovers and probes the central problems raised by thinkers on the archeology of ruins: the inner relation between literature and ruins, the ethics of finitude they embody, their future, and the place of ruins at the new beginnings of history. My mind expands as I read it, and I can easily predict others will respond the same way.
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"Written with a lucid, elegant sensibility and profound erudition, this study interprets anew the shifts in meaning and value of ruins from classical Latin, to the Romance languages, to English lyrics. At the heart of his analysis Hui uncovers and probes the central problems raised by thinkers on the archeology of ruins: the inner relation between literature and ruins, the ethics of finitude they embody, their future, and the place of ruins at the new beginnings of history. My mind expands as I read it, and I can easily predict others will respond the same way." -- -Giuseppe Mazzotta Sterling Professor in the Humanities for Italian, Yale University

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.
Les mer
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.
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List of Figures and Color Plates Introduction: A Japanese Friend Part I 1. The Rebirth of Poetics 2. The Rebirth of Ruins Part II 3. Petrarch's Vestigia and the Presence of Absence 4. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and the Erotics of Fragments 5. Du Bellay's Cendre and the Formless Signifier 6. Spenser's Moniments and the Allegory of Ruins Epilogue: Fallen Castles and Summer Grass Acknowledgments Notes Index
Les mer
Written with a lucid, elegant sensibility and profound erudition, this study interprets anew the shifts in meaning and value of ruins from classical Latin, to the Romance languages, to English lyrics. At the heart of his analysis Hui uncovers and probes the central problems raised by thinkers on the archeology of ruins: the inner relation between literature and ruins, the ethics of finitude they embody, their future, and the place of ruins at the new beginnings of history. My mind expands as I read it, and I can easily predict others will respond the same way.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780823274314
Publisert
2017-01-02
Utgiver
Fordham University Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
296

Forfatter
Hui Andrew

Biografisk notat

Andrew Hui is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Yale–NUS College, Singapore.

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