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Frame, glass, verse : the technology of poetic invention in the English Renaissance
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Frame, glass, verse : the technology of poetic invention in the English Renaissance / Rayna Kalas.
ISBN
9780801445415 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801445418 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
Physical Description
xix, 248 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 09, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-238) and index.
Contents
Introduction : the Renaissance and its period frames
The frame before the work of art
The craft of poesy and the framing of verse
The tempered frame
Poetic offices and the conceit of the mirror
Poesy, progress, and the perspective glass
"Shakes-speare's sonnets" and the properties of glass
Coda : the material sign and the transparency of language.
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