On Not Defending Poetry: Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's Defence of Poesy - Bates, Catherine (University of Warwick) - Books - Oxford University Press - 9780198793779 - March 23, 2017
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On Not Defending Poetry: Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's Defence of Poesy

Bates, Catherine (University of Warwick)

On Not Defending Poetry: Defence and Indefensibility in Sidney's Defence of Poesy

Sidney's Defence of Poesy is generally taken to present a model of poetry as ideal: the poet depicts ideals of human conduct which readers are inspired to imitate. Catherine Bates challenges this view, and shows how idealist poetics is complicit with the money form and its related ills: commodification, fetishism, and the abuse of power.


320 pages

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Released March 23, 2017
ISBN13 9780198793779
Publishers Oxford University Press
Pages 318
Dimensions 241 × 163 × 27 mm   ·   600 g

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