Seventeenth-Century Poetic Genres as Social Categories [electronic resource] : A New Reading of the Poetry of John Donne

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Takševa, Tatjana, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Authors and readers--England--History--17th century.
• Books and reading--England--History--17th century.
• Donne, John, 1572-1631--Criticism and interpretation.
• Literary form--History--17th century.
• Reader-response criticism.
• Literary form--History--17th century--England.
• Authors and readers--History--17th century--England.
• Books and reading--History--17th century.

Local Subjects:

• Authors and readers--England--History--17th century.
• Books and reading--England--History--17th century.
• Donne, John, 1572-1631--Criticism and interpretation.
• Literary form--History--17th century.
• Reader-response criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Through the reading records of Donne's poems and the concept of multiple referentiality, this study examines the social dimensions of early modern genres and the relationship among poetics, rhetoric and the Renaissance doctrines of imitation, placing systematic attention on how the differences oral and written modes of expression influences the process of reading and the early modern understanding of genre.

Contents:

• SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY POETIC GENRES AS SOCIAL CATEGORIES: A New Reading of the Poetry of John Donne; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Introduction: Renaissance Genres in Their Social Contexts; Chapter Two: Renaissance Rhetoric, the Culture of Imitation, and Genres: Toward an Early Modern Theory of Reading; Chapter Three: Material Records of Reader Appropriation and the Uncertain Boundaries of Early Modern Genres; Chapter Four: Donne's Verse Epistles and the Contexts of Genre
• Chapter Five: Donne's An Anatomy of the World as a Sermon in VerseChapter Six: Generic Function in Donne's Satires; Chapter Seven: Some Final Remarks on Appropriative Reading and Genre; Figure 1.; Figure 2.; Figure 3.; Figure 4.; Figure 5.; Figure 6a.; Figure 6b.; Figure 7a.; Figure 7b.; Figure 8.; Figure 9.; Figure 10.; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-7734-2974-3

OCLC:

818117241