On not defending poetry : defence and indefensibility in Sidney's 'Defence of Poesy'
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 9354
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198793779
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This 175,000-word monograph provides a radical new interpretation of Philip Sidney’s Defence of Poesy (1595), the foundational text of English poetics. Over the centuries, an extensive secondary literature has seen Sidney’s justification of literature in largely traditional and moralistic terms. On Not Defending Poetry overturns this received opinion by using critical theory—specifically, post-Marxist economic criticism—to show that Sidney’s text is ahead of its time in developing an aesthetic appreciation for poetry at odds with a profit-based, utilitarian, or instrumental one. The monograph was awarded the biannual Elizabeth Dietz prize for the best publication in early modern studies (2019).”
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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