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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... theater audience the past , through an imagined vision of the figure . In this case the transition between theater and reality ( or " stage " and " age " ) is a benign if not a benignant one , flattering the King with his similitude to ...
... theater rather than the more immediate reality confronting us in Jonson's play . In The New Organon Francis Bacon calls one crucial set of obstacles to scientific progress the " Idols of the Theater . " The theater was his metaphor for ...
... theaters of Elizabethan London . 15 Like those theaters , the house is officially closed when the frequency of deaths ... theater company : " they here contract / Each for a share , and all begin to act . / Much company they draw , and ...
Contents
Issues | 1 |
EARL MINER Some Issues of Literary Species | 15 |
ANN E IMBRIE Defining Nonfiction Genres | 45 |
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