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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... studies have always been a staple of Renaissance literary scholarship . But however historically grounded , such studies are inevitably affected by contemporary literary theory and its assumptions about genre . Not surprisingly , genre ...
... studies of the Renaissance in particular , Rosalie Colie's work , both in The Resources of Kind ( Berkeley , 1973 ) and in her studies of Shake- speare ( Princeton , 1974 ) and Marvell ( Princeton , 1970 ) , has greatly enriched our ...
... studies might be aided and pure studies pro- moted . " stance from that of a " Humanist . " 48 Intret Cato : Authority and the Epigram 169.
Contents
Issues | 1 |
EARL MINER Some Issues of Literary Species | 15 |
ANN E IMBRIE Defining Nonfiction Genres | 45 |
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