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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... conception of literature as a distinct cognitive entity is a con- ception prior to our subject of literary kinds , and conversely a conception of literary kinds requires as a kind of syllogistic major premise that there be a species ...
... conception , the literatures of the world , already constitutes a cognitive step toward major distinction . On the other hand , we also require a conception of an individual work , for even the most ardent intertextualist or arguer for ...
... conceptions more useful than do denizens of others . But we also discover that we cannot do without these so - to - speak midrange conceptions . Willy - nilly we are committed to think in terms of " species , or distinct kind . " What ...
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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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