{"product_id":"conversations-classical-and-renaissance-intertextuality-9781526152671","title":"Conversations: Classical and Renaissance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor educated poets and readers in the Renaissance, classical literature was as familiar and accessible as the work of their compatriots and contemporaries – often more so. This volume seeks to recapture that sense of intimacy and immediacy, as scholars from both sides of the modern disciplinary divide come together to eavesdrop on the conversations conducted through allusion and intertextual play in works from Petrarch to Milton and beyond. The essays include discussions of Ariosto, Spenser, Du Bellay, Marlowe, the anonymous drama Caesars Revenge, Shakespeare and Marvell, and look forward to the grand retrospect of Shelley’s Adonais. Together, they help us to understand how poets across the ages have thought about their relation to their predecessors, and about their own contributions to what Shelley would call ‘that great poem, which all poets…have built up since the beginning of the world’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This illuminating book...will be of fundamental interest to students and scholars both of renaissance and early modern literature and of their classical interactions. It mixes well-known texts and authors with less-known but equally revealing examples, laudably looks to Italian and French as well as English, has a keen eye for political significance, and indubitably demonstrates that important literary effects can be derived from considering the intertextual conversations of poets through extended chains of reception stretching from the ancient world to the Romantics.'\u003cbr\u003eStephen Harrison. International Journal of the Classical Tradition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'These critics take that time and have that patience; editor, contributors, and press are all to be commended for some impressive resistance to the academic logic of the Minimum Publishable Unit ... The guest at this intellectual feast leaves nourished by a strong sense of where the most exciting parts of the critical conversation between Classical and Renaissance Studies are heading.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Currell, Translation and Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The classical tradition as discussed in this volume is a highly productive series of conversations that continues to this day as we talk back to the past, and listen to the many overlapping conversations already had. The essays in this volume, taken as a whole, suggest that in some ways this tradition is self-reflexive and concerned with its own existence, constantly arguing for the power of words to create immortality \u003ci\u003evia\u003c\/i\u003e this ever-evolving literary tradition ... The book will surely invigorate scholars of the ancient world and of Renaissance English literature ... The contributors have each been given the space and freedom to explore their topics in great depth, and the overall effect must surely come close to capturing the enlivening twenty-first century conversations from which the book derives.'\u003cbr\u003eKatie Reid, Bryn Mawr Classical Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This illuminating book... will be of fundamental interest to students and scholars both of renaissance and early modern literature and of their classical interactions. It mixes well-known texts and authors with less-known but equally revealing examples, laudably looks to Italian and French as well as English, has a keen eye for political significance, and indubitably demonstrates that important literary effects can be derived from considering the intertextual conversations of poets through extended chains of reception stretching from the ancient world to the Romantics.'\u003cbr\u003eInternational Journal of the Classical Tradition\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Introduction - Syrithe Pugh\u003cbr\u003e2 Flying with the Immortals: Reaching for the Sky in Classical and Renaissance Poetics - Philip Hardie\u003cbr\u003e3 In and Out of Latin: Diptych and Virtual Diptych in Marvell, Milton, Du Bellay and Others - Stephen Hinds\u003cbr\u003e4 Reviving Lucan: Marloew, Tamburlaine, and Lucans First Booke - Emma Buckley\u003cbr\u003e5 Citizenship and Suicide: Shakespeare's Roman Plays, Republicanism and Identity in Samson Agonistes - Helen Lynch\u003cbr\u003e6 Adonis and Literary Immortality in Pastoral Elegy - Syrithe Pugh\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041017692503,"sku":"9781526152671","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526152671.jpg?v=1750948615","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/conversations-classical-and-renaissance-intertextuality-9781526152671","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}