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The Renaissance epic and the oral past
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Title
The Renaissance epic and the oral past [electronic resource] / Anthony Welch.
ISBN
0300188994
9780300188998
0300178867
9780300178869
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
This volume explores why Renaissance epic poetry clung to fictions of song and oral performance in an age of growing literacy. 16th- and 17th-century poets, Anthony Welch argues came to view their written art as newly distinct from the oral cultures of their ancestors.
Variant and related titles
EBSCOhost eBook collection, Yale University Press.
Other formats
Print version: Welch, Anthony, 1975- Renaissance epic and the oral past. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 08, 2019
Series
Yale studies in English
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Tasso's silent lyre
The oldest song: Ronsard and Spenser
Interchapter: The lutanist and the nightingale
Harps in Babylon: Cowley, Davenant, Butler
Milton's lament
Epic opera
Coda: The singer withdraws.
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Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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