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1 online resource (351 pages) |
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Introduction: Renaissance genres in their social contexts -- Renaissance rhetoric, the culture of imitation, and genres: toward an early modern theory of reading -- Material records of reader appropriation and the uncertain boundaries of early modern genres -- Donne's verse epistles and the contexts of genre -- Donne's An anatomy of the world as a sermon in verse -- Generic function in Donne's satires -- Some final remarks on appropriative reading and genre |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Donne, John, 1572-1631 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Donne, John, 1572-1631 fast |
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Literary form -- History -- 17th century
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Authors and readers -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Reader-response criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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Authors and readers
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Books and reading
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Literary form
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Reader-response criticism
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English.
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Languages & Literatures.
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English Literature.
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780773429741 |
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0773429743 |
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