The Building in the Text: Alberti to Shakespeare and Milton - Couverture rigide

Eriksen, Roy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0271020229 ISBN 13 : 9780271020228

Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000

Synopsis

In The Building in the Text, Roy Eriksen shows that Renaissance writers conceived of their texts in accordance with architectural principles. His approach opens the way to wide-ranging discussions of the structure and meaning of a variety of literary texts and also provides new insights into the famed architectural ekphrases of Alberti and Vasari.

Analyzing such words as "plot," "topos," "fabrica," and "stanza," Eriksen discloses the fundamental spatial symmetries and complexities in the writings of Ariosto, Shakespeare, and Milton, among other major figures. Ultimately, his book uncovers and clarifies a tradition of literary architecture that is rooted in antiquity and based on correspondences regarded as ordering principles of the cosmos.

Eriksen’s book will be of interest to art historians, historians of literature, and those concerned with the classical heritage, rhetoric, music, and architecture.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Roy Eriksen is Professor of Interdisciplinary Italian Renaissance Studies at the University of Oslo in Rome.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0271020229
• ISBN 13: 9780271020228
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible