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Seventeenth-century Poetic Genres as Social Categories: A New Reading of the Poetry of John Donne
Author(s): Tatjana Takseva (Author)
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 1 April 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 340 pages
- ISBN-10: 0773436065
- ISBN-13: 9780773436060
Book Description
This book examines the notion of Renaissance genre contextually, in its social functions, by tracing the role of anonymous readers in selected manuscripts in a representative selection of John Donne’s occasional poetry–satires The Anniversaries and his verse epistles.
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This book examines the notion of Renaissance genre contextually, in its social functions, by tracing the role of anonymous readers in selected manuscripts in a representative selection of John Donne’s occasional poetry–satires The Anniversaries and his verse epistles.
About the Author
Dr.Takseva is Associate Professor at the Department of English at Saint Mary’s University, Canada. She specializes in English literature of the 17th century and Digital Humanities.
