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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... cultural heteroglossia almost from the beginning , not merely by the explosive sectarianism of the rev- olution itself . And because to read one's own culture in terms of Virgil's was inevitably to expose oneself to another language ...
... culture to a remarkable and unprece- dented extent , but the place of deception in this age does not derive solely from such dominance . There is , I think , something like a deep structure to this deceit , and its effects are visible ...
... culture . 13 According to traditional definitions , the in- habitants of guilt cultures suffer from the failure to fulfill in- ternalized values , while their counterparts in shame cultures primarily fear the disapproval of others . One ...
Contents
Issues | 1 |
EARL MINER Some Issues of Literary Species | 15 |
ANN E IMBRIE Defining Nonfiction Genres | 45 |
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