Frame, Glass, Verse: The Technology of Poetic I. Kalas Paperback<|

Frame, Glass, VerseThe Technology of Poetic Invention in the English Renaissance\nAuthor(s): Rayna Kalas\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9781501730887, 978-1501730887\nSynopsis\nIn a book that draws attention to some of our most familiar and unquestioned habits of thoughtfrom \""framing\"" to \""perspective\"" to \""reflection\""Rayna Kalas suggests that metaphors of the poetic imagination were once distinctly material and technical in character. Kalas explores the visual culture of the English Renaissance by way of the poetic image, showing that English writers avoided charges of idolatry and fancy through conceits that were visual, but not pictorial. \n\n Frames, mirrors, and windows have been pervasive and enduring metaphors for texts from classical antiquity to modernity; as a result, those metaphors seem universally to emphasize the mimetic function of language, dividing reality from the text that repr.