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Sidney's Poetics: Imitating Creation
Michael Mack Mack
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Description for Sidney's Poetics: Imitating Creation
Paperback. influential treatise, Apologie for Poetrie (c. 1582), Michael Mack also Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
While offering a new interpretation of Sir Philip Sidney's elegant and influential treatise, Apologie for Poetrie (c. 1582), Michael Mack also makes a case for a new understanding of the historical process by which human beings were first thought to be endowed with the power to create -- in Sidney's day a power still reserved for God alone. Showing that secularist accounts of modernity cannot explain the development of Sidney's idea of creativity, Mack offers a version of the birth of modernity in which sacred and secular values are not necessarily opposed. Unlike previous accounts, his accommodates what are now ... Read more
While offering a new interpretation of Sir Philip Sidney's elegant and influential treatise, Apologie for Poetrie (c. 1582), Michael Mack also makes a case for a new understanding of the historical process by which human beings were first thought to be endowed with the power to create -- in Sidney's day a power still reserved for God alone. Showing that secularist accounts of modernity cannot explain the development of Sidney's idea of creativity, Mack offers a version of the birth of modernity in which sacred and secular values are not necessarily opposed. Unlike previous accounts, his accommodates what are now ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9780813221168
SKU
V9780813221168
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About Michael Mack Mack
Michael Mack is vice provost and dean of undergraduate studies at the Catholic University of America.
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