... completing a book called Theater of a City: Social Change and Generic Innovation on the Early Modern Stage . Shakespeare, Geography, and the Work of Genre on the Early Modern Stage Jean E. Howard Shakespeare set most of his tragedies somewhere other than England. Consider the list. Titus...

...Roger Chartier © 2006 University of Washington 2006 Roger Chartier is directeur d'études at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Genre between Literature and History Roger...

...Christian Moraru Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace . By Rosen Jeremy . New York : Columbia University Press , 2016 . x + 265 pp. Copyright © 2018 by University of Washington 2018 Jeremy Rosen’s ambitious, timely, and politically...

.... Stewart 1990 , 2009 . 2 Scholarly work that does cross the genres of poetry and the novel includes Clayton 1987 ; Elfenbein 1995 , 1999 ; Morgan 2009 ; and Riffaterre 1990 . To redress this oversight, I am writing two companion books with Emily Allen, a novel critic. Byron...

...Lauren M. E. Goodlad Abstract This essay explores “distant reading,” first, as a project of studying genre at supratextual scales of analysis (from early conceptions to computationalist successors) and, second, through the prescient late Victorian literary persona with which the latter practices...

... Theory and the Teaching of English . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . Many times over the course of what is beginning to feel like a quite lengthy teaching career, I have introduced students to the idea of genre by citing the definition that the late Robert Scholes provided in his brief...

... of the lyric as epideictic discourse.” Poetry’s epideictic function is exemplified in, but not limited to, conventional genres of praise such as encomium, panegyric, eulogy, love lyric, ode, and hymn. Its epideictic function is maintained also by poems’ frequent use of common monosyllabic words...

...- tions between As I Lay Dying and The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ ” (370). Undoubt- edly, Our Conrad proves the value of historicism and of looking politically at one genre above all — “the novel.” But part of the power of Our Conrad is that its revelations...

...Yomi Braester The essay examines films produced during the Seventeen Years period (1949–66) and suggests that political campaigns may be akin to film genres. Insofar as generic distinctions of theme and style are produced according to the shifting interests of critics and producers, campaigns have...

...Alfred Lutz Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Alfred Lutz teaches in the University Writing Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. This essay is part of a longer study of Goldsmith's career. “The Deserted Vie”and the Politics of Genre Alfred Lutz...

...Eric Rothstein Hill David. Radcliffe. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. xvi + 232 pp. $38.50. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 334 MLQ I September 1994 Forms of &fiction: Genre and Culture in Meditational...

... romanticism and the institutions of cultural transmission. Godwin and the Republican Romance: Genre, Politics, and Contingency in Cultural History Jon Klancher [The] "possible" is, so to speak, a "gentrified," pacified contingency, a contin- gency...

... and Genre in Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell (1994) as well as numerous articles on Renaissance and modern poetry, drama, and fiction. Lowelling and Laureling: Revising Gender and Genre in Robert Lowell’s Day by Day Barbara L. Estrin The man who keeps the Gorgon becomes the Gorgon.-Peter...

... to imitate his method but who do not possess his other gifts should be warned. Most of us admire rigor, but few have anything to say in favor of rigor mortis. W. M. FROHOCK Harvard University Le Genre dramatique. By ROBERTCHAMPICNY. Monte...

...) and Reading from the Margins: Textual Studies, Chaucer, and Medieval Litrature (1996). His book on early Tudor literature is forthcoming. The Genre of the Grave and the Origins of the Middle English Lyric Seth Lerer Written along the top margin of a late-twelfth-century...

... of genre theory in the sixteenth century. The Emergence of Poetic Genre Theory in the Sixteenth Century Daniel Javitch This essay proposes that the genre theory-namely, the treatises, commentaries, and debates about ancient as well as some modern poetic genres-that appears in Italy...

...Alan Liu Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 “SHAPELESS EAGERNESS” THE GENRE OF REVOLUTION IN BOOKS 9-10 OF THE PRELUDE By ALANLIU As the Kevolution books of The Prelude open...

...Kathleen Blake Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain . By Mary Poovey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. x + 511 pp. University of Washington 2009 Kathleen Blake is professor of English at the University of Washington...

...Margaret Gilman Aaron Schaffer. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Studies in Romance Literatures and Languages, Extra Volume XX, 1944. Pp. 427. $4.00. Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 124 Reviews The Genres of Parnassian Poetry: A Study...

...David Quint Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 David Quint is professor of English and comparative literature at Yale University. His forthcoming book is Montaigne and the Quality of Mercy . Narrative Interlace and Narrative Genres in Don Quijote and the Orlando...