The poetics of ruins in Renaissance literature / Andrew Hui.

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 bo...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hui, Andrew, 1980- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Verbal arts--studies in poetics.
Subjects:

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000Ii 4500
001 b9058297
003 CoU
008 160522s2016 nyuaf b 001 0 eng d
005 20230926175904.8
020 |a 9780823273355 
020 |a 0823273350 
020 |a 9780823274314 
020 |a 0823274314 
035 |a (OCoLC)ocn950450798 
035 |a (OCoLC)950450798 
040 |a BTCTA  |b eng  |e rda  |c BTCTA  |d YDXCP  |d BDX  |d ERASA  |d NGA  |d OCLCF  |d GZM  |d DEBBG  |d OCLCO  |d XII 
043 |a e------ 
049 |a CODA 
050 4 |a PN56.R87  |b H85 2016 
100 1 |a Hui, Andrew,  |d 1980-  |e author.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009181778  |1 http://isni.org/isni/0000000072924908. 
245 1 4 |a The poetics of ruins in Renaissance literature /  |c Andrew Hui. 
250 |a First edition. 
264 1 |a New York :  |b Fordham University Press,  |c 2016. 
300 |a x, 282 pages, 8 pages of plates :  |b illustrations (some color) ;  |c 24 cm. 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent. 
336 |a still image  |b sti  |2 rdacontent. 
337 |a unmediated  |b n  |2 rdamedia. 
338 |a volume  |b nc  |2 rdacarrier. 
490 1 |a Verbal arts--studies in poetics. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction: A Japanese Friend -- The Rebirth of Poetics --The Rebirth of Ruins -- Petrarch's Vestigia and the Presence of Absence -- The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and the Erotics of Fragments -- Du Bellay's Cendre and the Formless Signifier -- Spenser's Moniment and the Allegory of Ruins -- Epilogue: Fallen Castles and Summer Grass. 
520 8 |a 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. 
650 0 |a European poetry  |y Renaissance, 1450-1600  |x History and criticism.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008119941. 
650 0 |a European literature  |y Renaissance, 1450-1600  |x History and criticism.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103307. 
650 0 |a Ruins in literature.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115794. 
650 7 |a European literature  |x Renaissance.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01710967. 
650 7 |a Ruins in literature.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01101206. 
655 7 |a Criticism, interpretation, etc.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01411635. 
776 0 8 |i Online version:  |a Hui, Andrew, 1980-  |t Poetics of ruins in Renaissance literature.  |d New York : Fordham University Press, 2017  |z 9780823273386  |w (OCoLC)959274279. 
830 0 |a Verbal arts--studies in poetics.  |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2012096075. 
907 |a .b90582974  |b 03-19-20  |c 02-23-17 
998 |a nor  |b 04-18-17  |c a  |d m   |e -  |f eng  |g nyu  |h 4  |i 1 
907 |a .b90582974  |b 07-23-17  |c 02-23-17 
944 |a MARS - RDA ENRICHED 
907 |a .b90582974  |b 05-01-17  |c 02-23-17 
907 |a .b90582974  |b 04-18-17  |c 02-23-17 
946 |a ss 
999 f f |i 473aa135-8300-5aa5-80dd-570f3477d02a  |s 24bddde7-c36d-5958-84e6-59623e47bb62 
952 f f |p Can circulate  |a University of Colorado Boulder  |b Boulder Campus  |c Norlin  |d Norlin Library - Stacks  |e PN56.R87 H85 2016  |h Library of Congress classification  |i book  |m U183072469945  |n 1