| Frame, Glass, Verse: The Technology of Poetic Invention in the English Renaissance Subjects: English poetry -- Early modern 1500–1700 -- History and criticism; Frame-stories -- History and criticism; Poetics -- History -- 16th century; Mirrors in literature; Invention (Rhetoric); Renaissance -- England; In a book that draws attention to some of our most familiar and unquestioned habits of thought--from "framing" to "perspective" to "reflection"--Rayna Kalas suggests that metaphors of the poetic imagination were once distinctly material and technical in... Rayna Kalas is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University. |