The Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past (Yale Studies in English)

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2012
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Explores why Renaissance epic poetry clung to fictions of song and oral performance in an age of growing literacy. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, the author argues, came to view their written art as newly distinct from the oral cultures of their ancestors.

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Explores why Renaissance epic poetry clung to fictions of song and oral performance in an age of growing literacy. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, the author argues, came to view their written art as newly distinct from the oral cultures of their ancestors.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 270
Publisher: YALE UNIV PR
Published: 30 Nov 2012
ISBN 10: 0300178867
ISBN 13: 9780300178869

The Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past (Yale Studies in English)

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$45.45

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