The Building in the Text
Subtitle: Alberti to Shakespeare and Milton
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press; Penn State University Press
Published: December 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780271020228
Subjects: Architecture; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Renaissance art; c 1500 to c 1600; English Renaissance Literature (1500-1700); Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Italian; Literature: Classics; Europe; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; European - Italian; Semiotics & Theory; 16th century; Architecture and literature; Early modern, 1500-1700; English literature; History and criticism; Italian Literature
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.