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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... satirist's success in persuasion depends on his au- dience's estimation of his particular character . The character , or ethos , of the Elizabethan satirist is con- ventional , modeled after the different personae of the classical satirists ...
... satirist strives to " tell the truth with a smile . " And on the poem's surface at least , the smile is appropriate , given its themes of vanity in dress and behavior and , on a deeper level , of inconstancy . Such the- orists as ...
... satirist's description of his study as a prison and coffin arrests our attention through its wit and is equally remarkable for what it says about the satirist's mood : if his study is like a prison to him , he should indeed want to ...
Contents
Issues | 1 |
EARL MINER Some Issues of Literary Species | 15 |
ANN E IMBRIE Defining Nonfiction Genres | 45 |
Copyright | |
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