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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... define genres as a Renaissance writer might - we must recognize the moral basis of literary form . It is to that definition I now turn . The modern prejudice against nonfiction prose as a less artful medium than poetry derives from a ...
... definition of literature itself . Not incidentally , then , in defining the heroic by the values it main- tains , Sidney reinforces the idea that the essence of literature itself is in its expression of a moral interpretation of ...
... definition of generic attitude will allow us to distinguish between the typical sixteenth - century sermon , like those included in the Book of Homilies ( 1547 ) , and the ... definition of mimesis is Defining Nonfiction Genres 65.
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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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