The formation of the genera in early modern culture
By: edited by Clare Lapraik Guest
Series: Early Modern and Modern Studies -- 5; Early modern and modern studies -- 5.
Publisher: Fabrizio Serra Editore
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Pisa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9788862271608
Subjects: Literary form; History; Art genres; Renaissance; Intellectual life
Description: Contents include: Alastair Fowler, The Formation of Genres in the Renaissance and after; Clare Lapraik Guest, Cicero's Idea and the Role of Genre in Renaissance Claims for Poetic Universality; Margareth Hagen, Ariosto's Lunatic Spinning of Fame; Randi Lise Davenport, Portrait of a Genre: Francisco de Quevedo's Re-creation of Menippean Satire in 1600s Spain; Trude Kolderup, Marivaux's Realism: Opening out the Genre of the Novel?; Frida Forsgren, Generic Transfer in the Tornabuoni Frescoes: Domenico Ghirlandaio and the Sacra Rappresentazione; Magne Malmanger, Sacra Conversazione in Perspective; Anna Lange Malmanger, Art Theory and the Free-Standing Statue in Cinquecento Florentine Sculpture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.