The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature

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.

Author: Andrew Hui
Publisher: Modern Language Initiative
Published: 01/02/2017
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780823274314

About the Author

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