Main entry:

Eriksen, Roy T.

Title & Author:

The building in the text : Alberti to Shakespeare and Milton / Roy Eriksen.

Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2001.

Description:

xxi, 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-184) and index.
Architecture and the art of plotting -- Pulcherrimum carmen: Latin paraclausithyra and the period as a poetic ideal -- Edificare: representing brunelleschi's Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore -- "Ordine con più ornamento": Vasari's Lives of Michelangelo (1550 and 1568) -- "Una fabrica di non tanta grandezza": the architecture of Tasso's Paragone -- Designing epic rooms: Ariosto, Tasso, and Milton.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"In The Building in the Text, Roy Eriksen shows that Renaissance writers conceived of their texts in accordance with architectural principles. His approach opens the way to wide-ranging discussions of the structure and meaning of a variety of literary texts and also provides new insights into the famed architectural ekphrases of Alberti and Vasari." "Analyzing such words as "plot," "topos," "fabrica," and "stanza," Eriksen discloses the fundamental spatial symmetries and complexities in the writings of Ariosto, Shakespeare, and Milton, among other major figures. Ultimately, his book uncovers and clarifies a tradition of literary architecture that is rooted in antiquity and based on correspondences regarded as ordering principles of the cosmos."
"Eriksen's book will be of interest to art historians, historians of literature, and those concerned with the classical heritage, rhetoric, music, and architecture."--Jacket.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0271020229
9780271020228
9780271027838
0271027835

Subject:

Alberti, Leon Battista 1404-1472
Ariosto, Ludovico 1474-1533
Milton, John 1608-1674
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
Tasso, Torquato 1544-1595
Vasari, Giorgio 1511-1574
Architecture and literature.
English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism.
Italian literature 16th century History and criticism.
Architecture et littérature.
Littérature anglaise 16e siècle Histoire et critique.
Littérature italienne 16e siècle Histoire et critique.
18.29 Italian literature.
18.05 English literature.
English literature Early modern
Italian literature
Architektur
Architekturtheorie
Kunst
Literatur
Bouwkunst.
Letterkunde.
Engels.
Italiaans.
Architektur <Motiv>
England
Italien

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 214754
Call No.: PN56.A73 E4 2001
Status: Available