Title: The formation of the genera in early modern culture
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.
Subjects: Literary form, History, Art genres, Renaissance, Intellectual life
Time periods: 16th century