Sidney's Poetics Imitating Creation |
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| Author:
| Mack, Michael |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8132-2116-8 |
| Publication Date: | May 2013 |
| Publisher: | Catholic University of America Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $24.95USD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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While offering a new interpretation of Sir Philip Sidney's elegant and influential treatise, Apologie for Poetrie, 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. 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.
While offering a new interpretation of Sir Philip Sidney's elegant and influential treatise, Apologie for Poetrie, 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. 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.