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The building in the text : Alberti to Shakespeare and Milton

"In The Building in the Text, Roy Eriksen shows that Renaissance writers conceived of their texts in accordance with architectural principles. His approach opens the way to wide-ranging discussions of the structure and meaning of a variety of literary texts and also provides new insights into the famed architectural ekphrases of Alberti and Vasari." "Analyzing such words as "plot," "topos," "fabrica," and "stanza," Eriksen discloses the fundamental spatial symmetries and complexities in the writings of Ariosto, Shakespeare, and Milton, among other major figures. Ultimately, his book uncovers and clarifies a tradition of literary architecture that is rooted in antiquity and based on correspondences regarded as ordering principles of the cosmos."
Print Book, English, ©2001
Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pa., ©2001
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xxi, 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780271020228, 9780271027838, 0271020229, 0271027835
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Architecture and the art of plotting
Pulcherrimum carmen: Latin paraclausithyra and the period as a poetic ideal
Edificare: representing brunelleschi's Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore
"Ordine con più ornamento": Vasari's Lives of Michelangelo (1550 and 1568)
"Una fabrica di non tanta grandezza": the architecture of Tasso's Paragone
Designing epic rooms: Ariosto, Tasso, and Milton