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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... poetic and rhetorical . 12 This system rein- forces two basic elements of the Renaissance poetics of genre : the primary importance of model texts and authors in estab- lishing the conception of the kinds , and the ready paralleling of ...
... poetic ones , and then back to prose again . Ascham proposes " A booke thus wholie filled with examples of Imitation , first out of Tullie , compared with Plato , Xenophon , Isocrates , Demosthenes , and Aristotle , than out of Virgil ...
... poet , finds Jonson's attempt to make the epigram a vehicle for laureate ambition both original and ultimately ... poetic outlet for humanist moral authority . In fact , the development of the epigram in England in the course of ...
Contents
Issues | 1 |
EARL MINER Some Issues of Literary Species | 15 |
ANN E IMBRIE Defining Nonfiction Genres | 45 |
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