Sidney's poetics : imitating creation / Michael Mack.

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Mack, Michael, 1963- [Author]

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9780813216218

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PR2343 .S536 2005

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Contents:

Sidney's fiction and the allegorical tradition -- The idea of poetry -- The imitation of creation -- From creation to regeneration -- The imitation of Cyrus -- Creativity and the origins of modernity.

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Review: "Sir Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry (c. 1582) has often been identified as a landmark along the path from poetry understood as imitation to poetry understood as creation. Critics are, however, far from agreeing on the defining features of Sidney's transitional theory. By attending to Sidney's familiarity with patristic and contemporary theological works, Sidney's Poetics shows how theological considerations shaped Sidney's synthesis of the literary-critical traditions he inherited and led him to what is in fact the first full-fledged theory of poetic creativitySummary: No less bold than Pico's Oration, Sidney's Apology presents a truly original poetic theory that is at the same time an innovative conception of human nature, anticipating the Romantic poets by more than two centuries. For Sidney, the creative power of the poet is the power to regenerate the reader and, through the reader, the entire world." "Sidney's Poetics is essential reading not only for students and scholars of Renaissance literature and literary theory but also for all who want to understand how human beings write and read creatively."--Jacket

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Includes bibliographies and index.

The history of creativity -- Sidney's fiction and the allegorical tradition -- The idea of poetry -- The imitation of creation -- From creation to regeneration -- The imitation of Cyrus -- Creativity and the origins of modernity.

"Sir Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry (c. 1582) has often been identified as a landmark along the path from poetry understood as imitation to poetry understood as creation. Critics are, however, far from agreeing on the defining features of Sidney's transitional theory. By attending to Sidney's familiarity with patristic and contemporary theological works, Sidney's Poetics shows how theological considerations shaped Sidney's synthesis of the literary-critical traditions he inherited and led him to what is in fact the first full-fledged theory of poetic creativity

No less bold than Pico's Oration, Sidney's Apology presents a truly original poetic theory that is at the same time an innovative conception of human nature, anticipating the Romantic poets by more than two centuries. For Sidney, the creative power of the poet is the power to regenerate the reader and, through the reader, the entire world." "Sidney's Poetics is essential reading not only for students and scholars of Renaissance literature and literary theory but also for all who want to understand how human beings write and read creatively."--Jacket

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