Seventeenth-century poetic genres as social categories
Subtitle: a new reading of the poetry of John Donne
By: Tatjana Takseva ; with a foreword by David Gailbraith
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780773436060
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Renaissance genres in their social contexts; title: Renaissance rhetoric, the culture of imitation, and genres: toward an early modern theory of reading; title: Material records of reader appropriation and the uncertain boundaries of early modern genres; title: Donne's verse epistles and the contexts of genre; title: Donne's An anatomy of the world as a sermon in verse; title: Generic function in Donne's satires; title: Some final remarks on appropriative reading and genre.