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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... epic hymn is usually choric , not monodic . The shift to a hymn in an epic poem is clear and unmistakable : recognition comes about through simple plot signaling ( “ Then they sang a hymn " ) or merely through a shift from narrative to ...
... epic hymn enters after Homer , although Homer mentions hymns being sung ( Iliad , 1.472-474 ) . Homer's passage is pre- cedent that hymns exist in the epic world , and we shall see this passage alluded to by other epic poets . But Homer ...
... epic that gives the impetus for us to understand the hymn in its deepest and most significant sense . In it , epic struggles and epic glory are kept in perspective and imaginatively tran- scended into an active and unconstrained musical ...
Contents
Issues | 1 |
EARL MINER Some Issues of Literary Species | 15 |
ANN E IMBRIE Defining Nonfiction Genres | 45 |
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