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Remembered words : essays on genre, realism, and emblems /

A selection of essays, written over Alastair Fowler's prestigious career, combining celebrated works of literary criticism and previously unpublished pieces that reflect on developments in literary criticism over the last sixty years.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fowler, Alastair (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Literature > History and criticism.
Criticism.
Littérature > Histoire et critique.
Critique.
criticism.
literary criticism.
Semiotics & Theory.
Criticism
Literature
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Remembered Words: Essays on Genre, Realism, and Emblems
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Emblems of Temperance in The Faerie Queene, Book II
  • The Life and Death of Literary Forms
  • Forms and the Literary Model
  • Interpretation and Genre
  • Death of Genres
  • Hierarchic Mobility
  • The Phases of Generic Development
  • Modal Transformation
  • The 'Better Marks' of Jonson's To Penshurst
  • II
  • III
  • IV
  • V
  • VI
  • VII
  • VIII
  • IX
  • Pastoral Instruction in 'As You Like It'
  • 'Paradise Regained': Some Problems of Style
  • The Paradoxical Machinery of The Rape of the Lock
  • All machineries and none
  • Psychological machinery
  • Moral machinery
  • Political machinery
  • Georgic and Pastoral: Laws Of Genre in The Seventeenth Century
  • Twelfth Night and Epiphany
  • Saints of the Season
  • The Ancient Theology
  • Pythagoras and the Elements
  • Emblems of Love
  • Saturn and Melancholy
  • 'Cut without hands': Herbert's Christian altar
  • Shakespeare's Renaissance Realism
  • I
  • II
  • III
  • IV
  • V
  • VI
  • VII
  • VIII
  • Relevance
  • The Emblem as a Literary Genre
  • Relation of parts
  • Labels
  • Thinking in Emblems
  • Assembly of the Emblem Elements
  • Emblem Collections as 'Silvae'
  • Emblematic Title-Pages
  • Inset Emblems
  • Lord's Space in Seventeenth-Century Britain
  • The Formation of Genres in the Renaissance and After
  • Gavin Douglas: Romantic Humanist
  • Douglas's Humanism
  • Mimesis and Ekphrasis
  • Landscape Description
  • The Calendrical Cycle
  • Anagrams
  • Ut Architectura Poesis
  • Symbolic numbers
  • Symmetry
  • Specific analogies
  • Column
  • Altars
  • Frontispieces and façades
  • Solomon's Temple
  • Galleries of memory
  • Perspective and Realism in the Renaissance
  • Spectator Realism
  • Participative Realism
  • Viewpoints
  • Scenery
  • Survivals of Renaissance Realism.
  • Penshurst Revisited
  • Writing on trees
  • The prophetic oak
  • Praise and blame
  • Patronage
  • Objects of satire
  • Jonson's gift
  • Later inscriptions
  • Bibliography
  • Index.