On not defending poetry : defence and indefensibility in Sidney's Defence of poesy / Catherine Bates.
2017
PR2343
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Title
On not defending poetry : defence and indefensibility in Sidney's Defence of poesy / Catherine Bates.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191835575 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
PR2343
Dewey Decimal Classification
808.1
Summary
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.
Note
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 16, 2017).
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Print version: 9780198793779
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