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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... called an Epique Poem . The Heroique Poem Dramatique is Tragedy . The Scommatique Narrative is Satyre , Dra- matique is Comedy . The Pastorall narrative is called simply Pastorall , anciently Bucolique ; the same Dramatique , Pastorall ...
... called " infinite " because it can always desire something " more " ( " The will is infi- nite ... and the act a slave to limit , " says Shakespeare's Troi- lus ) , the " deathlesse soule " would forever seek a new body to vivify were ...
... for all their kinship , between Donne's satura and what Montaigne had called ( 3.13.532 ) his fricassée . JAMES S. BAUMLIN Generic Contexts of Elizabethan Satire : Rhetoric The Montaigneity of Donne's Metempsychosis 443.
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Issues | 1 |
EARL MINER Some Issues of Literary Species | 15 |
ANN E IMBRIE Defining Nonfiction Genres | 45 |
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