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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... epigram a vehicle for laureate ambition both original and ultimately unsuccessful.3 For Helgerson , the epigram is a youthful , " amateur " genre , finally unable to bear the weight of Jonson's efforts at laureate self - presentation.4 ...
... epigram begin to make more sense . In the first place , theorists of the epigram in six- teenth - century England do not consider the " pointed " conclu- sion as a defining characteristic of the genre ; the word " point " was not ...
... epigram into an erudite and morally authoritative form . Crowley turned the serious epigram from classical forms to native and biblical models and overtly Protestant themes . Heywood disliked their poetic appropriation of secular moral ...
Contents
Issues | 1 |
EARL MINER Some Issues of Literary Species | 15 |
ANN E IMBRIE Defining Nonfiction Genres | 45 |
Copyright | |
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