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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... early Middle Ages . This tradition continued down to at least the early twentieth century , but beginning in the eighteenth century the term " elegy , " without losing its earlier meaning , came to be applied to poems of personal mood ...
... early writers are puzzling ; they are blamed for their lack of interest in classical models , especially Martial , and for their inability to imitate his " point . " The general feeling seems to be that these writers did not understand ...
... early part of the century , and later on , with Protestants , as a vehicle for increasingly serious criticism of the Roman Catholic church . The early history of the Pasquil or Pasquinade is hazy . At some point in the late fifteenth or ...
Contents
Issues | 1 |
EARL MINER Some Issues of Literary Species | 15 |
ANN E IMBRIE Defining Nonfiction Genres | 45 |
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