On Not Defending Poetry: Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's Defence of Poesy

ISBN-13: 9780198793779 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 320 str.

Catherine Bates

Opis

Sidney's Defence of Poesy is generally taken to present a model of poetry as ideal: the poet depicts ideals of human conduct which readers are inspired to imitate. Catherine Bates challenges this view, and shows how idealist poetics is complicit with the money form and its related ills: commodification, fetishism, and the abuse of power.

Recenzje

Deeply learned ... an indispensable book.

O autorze

Catherine Bates is Research Professor at the University of Warwick. She studied English at Oxford and was a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and of Peterhouse, Cambridge, before moving to the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick in 1995. She served as Head of Department from 2009 to 2014. She has been awarded a number of fellowships and prizes, including a Solmsen Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser (OUP, 2013).