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Poetry in a World of Things: Aesthetics and Empiricism in Renaissance Ekphrasis

By Francesco , Eisendrath , Rachel;Petrarca

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780226516585, 9780226516615, 9780226516752, 022651675X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4672537 bytes)
Series
Chicago scholarship online
Pages
illustrations (black and white)\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

We have become used to looking at art from a stance of detachment. In order to be objective, we create a 'mental space' between ourselves and the objects of our investigation, separating internal and external worlds. This detachment dates back to the early modern period, when researchers in a wide variety of fields tried to describe material objects as 'things in themselves' - things, that is, without the admixture of imagination. Generations of scholars have heralded this shift as the Renaissance 'discovery' of the observable world. Here, Rachel Eisendrath explores how poetry responded to this new detachment by becoming a repository for a more complex experience of the world.

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