Frame, glass, verse
Subtitle: the technology of poetic invention in the English Renaissance
By: Rayna Kalas.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780801445415
Subjects: English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Frame-stories -- History and criticism; Poetics -- History -- 16th century; Mirrors in literature; Invention (Rhetoric); Renaissance -- England
Description: "Frame, Glass, Verse shows how an earlier understanding of poetic language has been obscured by a modern idea of framing that has structured our apprehension of works of art, concepts, and even historical periods. Kalas presents archival research in the history of frames, mirrors, windows, lenses, and reliquaries that will be of interest to art historians, cultural theorists, historians of science, and literary critics alike. Throughout Frame, Glass, Verse, she challenges readers to rethink the relationship of poetry to technology."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the Renaissance and its period frames; title: The frame before the work of art; title: The craft of poesy and the framing of verse; title: The tempered frame; title: Poetic offices and the conceit of the mirror; title: Poesy, progress, and the perspective glass; title: "Shakes-speare's sonnets" and the properties of glass; title: Coda : the material sign and the transparency of language.