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Renaissance Genres: Essays on Theory, History, and Interpretation
Barbara Kiefer Lewalski (Ed.)
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Description for Renaissance Genres: Essays on Theory, History, and Interpretation
Hardback. Editor(s): Lewalski, Barbara K. Series: English Studies. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 44. Weight in Grams: 771.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
Series
English Studies
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674760400
SKU
V9780674760400
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