Title data
Klaeger, Florian:
Golden Worlds and Brazen Lies : Astronomy and Poetry in English Renaissance Poetics.
In: Müller-Wood, Anja ; Adamczewski, Tymon ; Gill, Patrick
(ed.):
Translating Renaissance Experience. -
Montréal
: Éditions québécoises de l’œuvre
,
2021
. - pp. 45-66
. - (Vita Traductiva
; 12
)
ISBN 978-2-924337-17-2
Project information
Project title: |
Project's official title Project's id Cosmopoetic Form-knowledge: Astronomy, Poetics, and Ideology in England, 1500 – 1800 429827737 |
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Project financing: |
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG-Sachbeihilfe |
Abstract in another language
At a time when 'science' and 'art' had not yet emerged as separate systems, English Renaissance writers on poetics refer to astronomy and its close cognate, astrology, with remarkable frequency. They compare the work of poets to that of astronomers in order to define the nature and effects of poetry more precisely. This essay charts, very briefly, their purposes in choosing astronomy as a foil for poetry, and suggests common denominators that made the comparison salient. One key concern was the process by which the two domains translated experience into knowledge differently; another is the object of experience itself.
Further data
Item Type: | Article in a book |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Keywords: | Renaissance poetics; astronomy; early modern astroculture; early modern literature and science; mimesis |
Institutions of the University: | Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature > Professor English Literature Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature > Professor English Literature > Professor English Literature - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Florian Klaeger Profile Fields Profile Fields > Emerging Fields Profile Fields > Emerging Fields > Cultural Encounters and Transcultural Processes |
Result of work at the UBT: | Yes |
DDC Subjects: | 800 Literature > 820 English and Old English literatures |
Date Deposited: | 28 May 2021 06:28 |
Last Modified: | 24 Feb 2022 09:55 |
URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/54990 |