Frame, glass, verse : the technology of poetic invention in the English Renaissance /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kalas, Rayna, 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the Renaissance and its period frames
  • The frame before the work of art
  • The craft of poesy and the framing of verse
  • The tempered frame
  • Poetic offices and the conceit of the mirror
  • Poesy, progress, and the perspective glass
  • "Shakes-speare's sonnets" and the properties of glass
  • Coda : the material sign and the transparency of language.