Classical, Renaissance, and Postmodernist Acts of the Imagination
Subtitle: Essays Commemorating O.B. Hardison, Jr
Contributors: O. B. Hardison (Editor); Arthur F. Kinney (Editor)
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; UNKNO
Published: October 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780874135831
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Poetry & poets; Postmodernism; Literature; Literary History And Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; General; Hardison, O. B; History and criticism
Description: This sharply focused collection of essays on poetics and poetry, with special attention to Shakespeare, includes the work of some of the nation's best-known and most respected scholars and authors. All of them are former colleagues of O. B.

Hardison, Jr., and their major new essays, written especially for this collection, center on his interests: Aristotle and classical poetics, Petrarch and Italian poetics, the English Renaissance, especially Shakespeare and Milton, and postmodernist work in theory, literature, and science.