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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Highly original yet well founded historically: an important contribution to the scholarship of the Italian Renaissance.”
—Alastair Fowler,University of Edinburgh
“While rhetoric has been central to the study of humanist writing devoted to art and architecture, the importance of artistic and architectural theory for literature has been largely overlooked. Eriksen’s new assessment, The Building in the Text, fills this void. The study not only discusses the significance of classical rhetoric for aesthetics; it also explores the ways in which Renaissance artistic theory, including architectural treatises, influenced Italian and Elizabethan literary culture.
Eriksen offers an insightful exposition on the craft of writing, providing an interdisciplinary study of architectural metaphors and further exploring the visual natures of Renaissance literature and poetry.”
—Deborah H. Cibelli Sixteenth Century Journal
“Eriksen offers an insightful exposition on the craft of writing, providing an interdisciplinary study of architectural metaphors and further exploring the visual nature of Renaissance literature and poetry.”
—Deborah H. Cibelli Sixteenth Century Journal
“In this groundbreaking book.”
—Douglas A. Brooks South Central Review
“Roy Eriksen’s rich, learned and persuasive recent study under review here.”
—Douglas A. Brooks South Central Review
“The Building in the Text, by bringing together material from a number of sources and applying it to an analysis of how evolving rhetorical conventions shaped the compositional, structural, and visual from of early modern literary production, offers the reader an important interdisciplinary study of how architecture and rhetoric converged over time and emerged in the Renaissance in the form of writing and poetry that was recognizably architectonic and visual in nature.”
—Douglas A. Brooks South Central Review
