The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature by Andrew Hui

The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature

Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics

Andrew Hui

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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...

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