Blotted Lines: Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Discomposition
Adhaar Noor Desai, "Blotted Lines: Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Discomposition"
English | ISBN: 1501769839 | 2023 | 282 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 1501769839 | 2023 | 282 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Blotted Lines rebuffs centuries of mythologization about the creative process―the idea that William Shakespeare "never blotted out line"―to argue that by studying how early modern writers faced the challenges of writing poetry, instructors today can empower their students' approaches to critical writing. Adhaar Noor Desai offers deeply researched accounts of how poetic labor intersected with early modern rhetorical theory, material culture, and social networks.
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