Complete Joy of Homebrewing by Charles Papazian

Complete Joy of Homebrewing by Charles Papazian

Portugal was not always the best place for poets in the sixteenth century. Against the backdrop of an expanding empire, the country's annexation by Spain in 1580, and ongoing religious controversy, poets struggled to articulate their worth to rulers and patrons. This did not prevent them,
however, from persisting in their craft. Indeed, many of their works reflected precisely on the question of what poetry could do and what, ultimately, its value was. The answers that poets like Lu�s de Cam�es, Francisco de S� de Miranda, Ant�nio Ferreira, and Diogo Bernardes offered to these
questions, and which are explored in this book, ranged from lofty ideals to the more practical concerns of making ends meet when one depended on the whims of the powerful.

This volume articulates a 'pragmatics of poetry' that combines literary analysis and book history with methods from sociology (network analysis, sociology of professions, valuation studies) to explore how poets thought about themselves and negotiated the value of their verse in the court, with
patrons, or in the marketplace for books. It reveals how poets compared their work to that of lawyers and doctors and tried to set themselves apart as a special group of professionals. It shows how they threatened their patrons as well as flattered them and tried to turn their poetry from a gift
into something like a commodity or service that had to be paid for. While poets set out to write in the most ambitious genres and to better their European rivals, they sometimes refused to spend months composing an epic without the prospect of reward. Their books of verse, when printed, were framed
as linguistic propaganda as well as objects of material and aesthetic worth at a time when many said that non-devotional poetry was a sinful waste of time. This is a book about the various ways in which poets, metaphorically and more literally, tried to turn poetry and the paper it was written on
into gold.

Charlie Papazian is the current president of the Brewers Association and the creator of the American Homebrewers Association (AHA) and the Association of Brewers. He founded the publications Zymurgy (for homebrewers) and The New Brewer (for professional craftbrewers) and is the founder of the Great American Beer Festival and the World Beer Cup. He and his wife, Sandra, and daughter, Carla, live in Boulder, Colorado, where he still homebrews lagers, ales, and honey meads.

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ISBN 13	9780060531058
ISBN 10	0060531053
Title	Complete Joy of Homebrewing
Author	Charles Papazian
Series	Harperresource Book Ser
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2003-09-23
Number of pages	432
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