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We have become used to looking at art from a stance of detachment. In order to be objective, we create a mental space between ourselves and the objects of our investigation, separating internal and external worlds. This detachment dates back to the early modern period, when researchers in a wide variety of fields tried to describe material objects as things in themselvesthings, that is, without the admixture of imagination. Generations of scholars have heralded this shift as the Renaissance discovery of the observable world. In Poetry in a World of Things, Rachel Eisendrath explores how poetry responded to this new detachment by becoming a repository for a more complex experience of the world. The book focuses on ekphrasis, the elaborate literary description of a thing, as a mode of resistance to this new empirical objectivity. Poets like Petrarch, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare crafted highly artful descriptions that recovered the threatened subjective experience of the material

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 4/6/2018 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226516585, 978-0226516585
      ISBN10: 022651658X
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      We have become used to looking at art from a stance of detachment. In order to be objective, we create a mental space between ourselves and the objects of our investigation, separating internal and external worlds. This detachment dates back to the early modern period, when researchers in a wide variety of fields tried to describe material objects as things in themselvesthings, that is, without the admixture of imagination. Generations of scholars have heralded this shift as the Renaissance discovery of the observable world. In Poetry in a World of Things, Rachel Eisendrath explores how poetry responded to this new detachment by becoming a repository for a more complex experience of the world. The book focuses on ekphrasis, the elaborate literary description of a thing, as a mode of resistance to this new empirical objectivity. Poets like Petrarch, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare crafted highly artful descriptions that recovered the threatened subjective experience of the material

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