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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... effect not only on the way in which political discourse was practiced but on discourse in general , on the language of politics , and on the language of high culture . It would be sur- prising if political and linguistic revolution did ...
... effect the true plot of Richard III , placed in op- position to , and ultimately defeating , the " plots " and " proph- ecies " ( 1.1.32-40 ) Richard himself invents to gain the throne . Her curse is remembered repeatedly in the course ...
... effect Cassandras , knowing what will happen before it does , witnesses to an instant replay of something that occurs , paradoxically , both in the pres- ent and in the past . In a literal and dramaturgical sense these are indeed self ...
Contents
Issues | 1 |
EARL MINER Some Issues of Literary Species | 15 |
ANN E IMBRIE Defining Nonfiction Genres | 45 |
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