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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... Protestant Pastoral Satire Spenser's Shepheardes Calender encompasses native Protestant and biblical elements whose significance has long been over- shadowed by concern for the classical or Italianate origins of the text . His ...
... Protestants . Shakespeare's " old Mantuan " ( Love's Labour's Lost , 4.2.99 ) was anglicized as a model for Protestant satire even before Spenser's birth . Prior to George Turberville's 1567 translation of the Bucolica , John Bale , the ...
... Protestant peas- ant and a Catholic cleric whose ignorant attempts at sophisti- cated eloquence cannot mask his ... Protestant satire and complaint . Those poets held out special appeal as " Protestant " models because of the association ...
Contents
Issues | 1 |
EARL MINER Some Issues of Literary Species | 15 |
ANN E IMBRIE Defining Nonfiction Genres | 45 |
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