Renaissance Genres: Essays on Theory, History, and Interpretation, Issue 16Barbara Kiefer Lewalski Today genre studies are flourishing, and nowhere more vigorously perhaps than in the field of Renaissance literature, given the importance to Renaissance writers of questions of genre. These studies have been nourished, as Barbara Lewalski points out, by the varied insights of contemporary literary theory. More sophisticated conceptions of genre have led to a fuller appreciation of the complex and flexible Renaissance uses of literary forms. The eighteen essays in this volume are striking in their diversity of stance and approach. Three are addressed to genre theory explicitly, and all reveal a concern with theoretical issues. The contributors are Earl Miner, Ann E. Imbrie, Claudio Guillen, Alastair Fowler, Harry Levin, Morton W. Bloomfield, Mary T. Crane, Barbara J. Bono, Janel M. Mueller, Annabel Patterson, Steven N. Zwicker, Marjorie Garber, Robert N. Watson, John N. King, Heather Dubrow, John Klause, James S. Baumlin, and Francis C. Blessington. |
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... plowman into various shepherd characters allude to the ancient tradition of English estates satire and complaint . Piers's voice is typical in this attack on prideful clergy : Some gan to gape for greedie governaunce , And match them ...
... Plowman's Tale proper , " A Sterne stryf is stered newe " ( 1. 53 ) . Thomalin's hostility to ostentatious Catholic vestments " ygirt with belts of glitterand gold " ( " July , " 1. 177 ) accords with the Pelican's attack on cor- rupt ...
... Plowman and the pseudo- Chaucerian Plowman , just as the Catholicism of his interlocutor , Palinode ( " countersong " ) , may be inferred from his fondness for holidays and his devotion to " Sir John " ( a Tudor cliché for a Roman ...
Contents
Issues | 1 |
EARL MINER Some Issues of Literary Species | 15 |
ANN E IMBRIE Defining Nonfiction Genres | 45 |
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