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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... play " ( 3.4.56 ) . On the specific issue of the play's treatment of gender identity and sex roles , we need finally to move beyond Rosalind's de- fensive fears , her complex interaction as Ganymede / Rosalind , and her resubmission of ...
... played Rosalind conjures women to please themselves and men to play with women for mutual pleasure : My way is to conjure you , and I'll begin with the women . I charge you , O women , for the love you bear to men , to like as much of this ...
... play as a genre ? While the history play is not the only dramatic genre to make the claim that " it happened this way , " it is perhaps alone in situating the represented events at a definable temporal distance from , but along the same ...
Contents
Issues | 1 |
EARL MINER Some Issues of Literary Species | 15 |
ANN E IMBRIE Defining Nonfiction Genres | 45 |
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