Sidney's Poetics: Imitating Creation by Michael Mack (English) Paperback Book

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influential treatise, Apologie for Poetrie (c. 1582), Michael Mack also

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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 recognised to be the continuities between medieval and Renaissance culture, between the Renaissance and Romanticism, and between theological speculation and literary theory.

Author Biography

Michael Mack is vice provost and dean of undergraduate studies at the Catholic University of America.

Review

"Mack's probing, informed study looks afresh at the central assertion made by Philip Sidney in his Apology for Poetry, the most vital Elizabethan treatise on the subject. . . . . [I]t makes a significant contribution to the large literature of interpretation devoted to the Apology, and students of 16th-century intellectual culture should not neglect it."--Choice "In clear and concise English, Mack ranges within the zodiac of classical, medieval, and Renaissance sources in his attempt to understand how Sidney might have understood his terms. . . . Sidney's Poetics is well worth reading."--Renaissance Quarterly "Mack proves Sir Philip Sidney read widely and well. . . . Sidney's Poetics goes far to connect Sidney's new Renaissance ideas with medieval thinking and to refine our own ideas of the rise of modernity."-- Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance "[For] all scholars interested in intellectual history, Mack's work should become a first stop for inquiries into the development of artistic creativity."-- Sixteenth Century Journal "[A] remarkably thorough account of Sidney's well-known and lesser-known sources. . . . This is an impressive and useful book, the interdisciplinary focus of which makes it beneficial reading across a variety of scholarly fields."--Toronto Journal of Theology

Review Quote

"Mack's probing, informed study looks afresh at the central assertion made by Philip Sidney in his Apology for Poetry, the most vital Elizabethan treatise on the subject. . . . . [I]t makes a significant contribution to the large literature of interpretation devoted to the Apology, and students of 16th-century intellectual culture should not neglect it."--Choice "In clear and concise English, Mack ranges within the zodiac of classical, medieval, and Renaissance sources in his attempt to understand how Sidney might have understood his terms. . . . Sidney's Poetics is well worth reading."--Renaissance Quarterly "Mack proves Sir Philip Sidney read widely and well. . . . Sidney's Poetics goes far to connect Sidney's new Renaissance ideas with medieval thinking and to refine our own ideas of the rise of modernity."-- Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance "[For] all scholars interested in intellectual history, Mack's work should become a first stop for inquiries into the development of artistic creativity."-- Sixteenth Century Journal "[A] remarkably thorough account of Sidney's well-known and lesser-known sources. . . . This is an impressive and useful book, the interdisciplinary focus of which makes it beneficial reading across a variety of scholarly fields."--Toronto Journal of Theology

Details ISBN0813221161 Author Michael Mack Pages 232 Language English Year 2013 ISBN-10 0813221161 ISBN-13 9780813221168 Format Paperback Short Title SIDNEYS POETICS Media Book DEWEY 808.1 Residence Jerusalem, IS Birth 1969 Imprint The Catholic University of America Press Subtitle Imitating Creation Place of Publication Washington Country of Publication United States Illustrations Illustrations, black and white AU Release Date 2013-02-14 NZ Release Date 2013-02-14 UK Release Date 2013-02-14 Publisher The Catholic University of America Press Publication Date 2013-05-30 Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2013-05-30 We've got this

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