The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature
ISBN: 9780823273379
Platform/Publisher: De Gruyter / Fordham University Press
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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.

Hui Andrew :

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


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