The Renaissance and the Postmodern: A Study in Comparative Critical Values

By Duke Pesta, Thomas L. Martin Jr., Thomas L. Martin

Book Overview

The Renaissance and the Postmodern reconsiders postmodern readings of Renaissance texts by engaging in a dialectics the authors call comparative critical values. Rather than concede the contemporary hierarchy of theory over literature, the book takes the novel approach of consulting major Renaissance writers about the values at work in postmodern representations of early modern culture.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138659096
• ISBN13: 9781138659094
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"