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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... essay offers both a theoretical defense and an impressive demonstration of this approach , as he responds to sociological explanations for the supposed lateness of English georgic by making a crucial generic distinction between Augustan ...
... Essay ( Stuttgart , 1969 ) , pp . 7-8 . Hugo Friedrich thought that the letter was the formal origin of the essay , and dialogue that of its style of thought ( p . 6 ) . These could indeed have been more than a hundred.37 I 92 Claudio ...
... essay on literary kind that prefaces Absalom and Achitophel . Indeed , the efforts of this essay to mount overlapping , at points contradictory , and certainly disingenuous claims on behalf of the poem begin in the very title that ...
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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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