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In the era of early modern humanism, classical lyric genres such as elegy and epithalamion not only follow received uses but become newly scripted as a negotiation between past and present. Concentrating on these two representative genres, this lecture is an experiment in a revived genre criticism that seeks to recover, in terms indigenous to the period, how early modern poets and audiences conceived these and other genres at work in their world. Roland Greene is a scholar of Renaissance culture, especially the literatures of England, Latin Europe, and the transatlantic world, and of poetry and poetics from the sixteenth century to the present. His most recent book is Five Words: Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes. He is the Mark Pigott KBE Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University.
Presented by the History and Form of Lyric Lecture Series and the Program in Poetry and Poetics.
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In the era of early modern humanism, classical lyric genres such as elegy and epithalamion not only follow received uses but become newly scripted as a negotiation between past and present. Concentrating on these two representative genres, this lecture is an experiment in a revived genre criticism that seeks to recover, in terms indigenous to the period, how early modern poets and audiences conceived these and other genres at work in their world. Roland Greene is a scholar of Renaissance culture, especially the literatures of England, Latin Europe, and the transatlantic world, and of poetry and poetics from the sixteenth century to the present. His most recent book is Five Words: Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes. He is the Mark Pigott KBE Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University.
Presented by the History and Form of Lyric Lecture Series and the Program in Poetry and Poetics.
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to jmhaley@uchicago.edu.
