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 i...
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Chicago :
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Subjectivity and the antiquarian object: Petrarch among the ruins of Rome
- Here comes objectivity: Spenser's 1590 the Faerie Queene, book 3
- Playing with things: reification in Marlowe's Hero and Leander
- Feeling like a fragment: Shakespeare's the Rape of Lucrece
- Coda: make me not object.