Poetry in a World of Things: Aesthetics and Empiricism in Renaissance Ekphrasis - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226516615ISBN-10:022651661XUPC:9780226516615Book Category:Literary Criticism, ArtBook Subcategory:Renaissance, European, HistoryBook Topic:RenaissanceSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCYVFNJMS1
Poetry in a World of Things: Aesthetics and Empiricism in Renaissance Ekphrasis
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,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226516615ISBN-10:022651661XUPC:9780226516615Book Category:Literary Criticism, ArtBook Subcategory:Renaissance, European, HistoryBook Topic:RenaissanceSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCYVFNJMS1
Rachel Eisendrath is assistant professor of English and chair of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University.
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