The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature

The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature
Author: Andrew Hui
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2017-01-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0823273369

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.

The Literature of Emigration and Exile

The Literature of Emigration and Exile
Author: James Whitlark
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1992
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780896722637

The Literature of Emigration and Exile is a collection of works from various writers that explore the literature of emigration and exile. These writers examine poetic, fictional, and biographical voices from settings such as Turkey, renaissance Italy, modern Spain, Central and South America, Eastern Europe, China, Canada, and elsewhere.

The Power of Eloquence and English Renaissance Literature

The Power of Eloquence and English Renaissance Literature
Author: Neil Rhodes
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1992-10-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780312084219

This book is an ambitious critical investigation of the idea of eloquence as it informs classical and Renaissance thinking about literature.

Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid

Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid
Author: Maggie Kilgour
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2012-02-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199589437

Contributing to our understanding of Ovid, Milton, and more broadly the transmission and transformation of classical traditions, this book examines the ways in which Milton drew on Ovid's oeuvre, and argues that Ovid's revision of the past gave Renaissance writers a model for their own transformation of classical works.

Petrarch's Humanism and the Care of the Self

Petrarch's Humanism and the Care of the Self
Author: Gur Zak
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2010-05-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521114675

In this book, Gur Zak examines two central issues in Petrarch's works - his humanist philosophy and his concept of the self.

First Pages

First Pages
Author: Giancarlo Maiorino
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2010-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0271048190

&“Titology,&” a term first coined in 1977 by literary critic Harry Levin, is the field of literary studies that focuses on the significance of a title in establishing the thematic developments of the pages that follow. While the term has been used in the literary community for thirty years, this book presents for the first time a thoroughly developed theoretical discussion on the significance of the title as a foundation for scholarly criticism. Though Maiorino acknowledges that many titles are superficial and &“indexical,&” there exists a separate and more complex class of titles that do much more than simply decorate a book&’s spine. To prove this argument, Maiorino analyzes a wide range of examples from the modern era through high modernism to postmodernism, with writings spanning the globe from Spain and France to Germany and America. By examining works such as Essais, The Waste Land, Ulysses, and Don Quixote, First Pages proves the power of the title to connect the reader to the thematic, cultural, and literary context of the writing as a whole. Much like a fa&çade to a building, the title page serves as the frontispiece of literature, a sign that offers perspective and demands interpretation.

Dire Straits

Dire Straits
Author: Elizabeth Jane Bellamy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 144266391X

England became a centrally important maritime power in the early modern period, and its writers – acutely aware of their inhabiting an island – often depicted the coastline as a major topic of their works. However, early modern English versifiers had to reconcile this reality with the classical tradition, in which the British Isles were seen as culturally remote compared to the centrally important Mediterranean of antiquity. This was a struggle for writers not only because they used the classical tradition to legitimate their authority, but also because this image dominated cognitive maps of the oceanic world. As the first study of coastlines and early modern English literature, Dire Straits investigates the tensions of the classical tradition’s isolation of the British Isles from the domain of poetry. By illustrating how early modern English writers created their works in the context of a longstanding cultural inheritance from antiquity, Elizabeth Jane Bellamy offers a new approach to the history of early modern cartography and its influences on literature.

Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe

Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe
Author: Claire Jowitt
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2016-03-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317063090

Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe is an interdisciplinary collection of 24 essays which brings together leading international scholarship on Hakluyt and his work. Best known as editor of The Principal Navigations (1589; expanded 1598-1600), Hakluyt was a key figure in promoting English colonial and commercial expansion in the early modern period. He also translated major European travel texts, championed English settlement in North America, and promoted global trade and exploration via a Northeast and Northwest Passage. His work spanned every area of English activity and aspiration, from Muscovy to America, from Africa to the Near East, and India to China and Japan, providing up-to-date information and establishing an ideological framework for English rivalries with Spain, Portugal, France, and the Netherlands. This volume resituates Hakluyt in the political, economic, and intellectual context of his time. The genre of the travel collection to which he contributed emerged from Continental humanist literary culture. Hakluyt adapted this tradition for nationalistic purposes by locating a purported history of 'English' enterprise that stretched as far back as he could go in recovering antiquarian records. The essays in this collection advance the study of Hakluyt's literary and historical resources, his international connections, and his rhetorical and editorial practice. The volume is divided into 5 sections: 'Hakluyt's Contexts'; 'Early Modern Travel Writing Collections'; 'Editorial Practice'; 'Allegiances and Ideologies: Politics, Religion, Nation'; and 'Hakluyt: Rhetoric and Writing'. The volume concludes with an account of the formation and ethos of the Hakluyt Society, founded in 1846, which has continued his project to edit travel accounts of trade, exploration, and adventure.