Seventeenth-century poetic genres as social categories : a new reading of the poetry of John Donne /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Takševa, Tatjana
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2010]
Subjects:	Donne, John, > 1572-1631 > Criticism and interpretation. Literary form > History > 17th century. Authors and readers > England > History > 17th century. Books and reading > England > History > 17th century. Reader-response criticism.

Table of Contents:

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.