Winner of the 2003 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show of the Association of American University Presses for jacket design
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. |
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