The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature(English, Electronic book text, Hui Andrew)

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The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature(English, Electronic book text, Hui Andrew) is written by Hui Andrew and published by Fordham University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0823273369 (ISBN 10) and 9780823273362 (ISBN 13).

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.