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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... Virgil rather than Ovid as literary model , judgment over imagination . Ovid is the poet of passion ; he delights the imagination . Virgil is praised for " accuracy of expression . " Ovid excels in wit and suddenness of expression ; Virgil ...
... Virgil's poem itself as political commentary : a warning to Augustus Caesar on the dangers of tyranny and elective kingship , and such a political reading of Virgil was the key to his own conception of the epic and to the force of his ...
... Virgil's , comes after the prophecies have been made and a happy future predicted or , in the Aeneid , an end to ... Virgil by adding the triumph of mercy as well as the triumph of force . But in their view of perfection the two poets ...
Contents
Issues | 1 |
EARL MINER Some Issues of Literary Species | 15 |
ANN E IMBRIE Defining Nonfiction Genres | 45 |
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