34 | 2023
Genre Trouble in Early Modern English Writing / Body Building
Early modern writings frequently resist neat or easy generic categorisation. Subject to interpretation, pastiche and modification, generic categories offer flexible guidelines rather than a strict set of rules. This special issue aims to look at generic experimentation and innovation in early modern writing as a way to better understand the period’s multiple and evolving conceptions of genre.
This special issue brings together six essays around three topics. First, the question of generic hybridity. This section incorporates one essay which offers an answer to the historical origin of the generic mixity that characterises English Renaissance literature, and another which examines how this plays out in Spenser’s Shepheardes Calendar, in its combination of classical and popular forms. Second, female life-writing: a flexible genre in which authors subverted readers’ expectations of what an autobiography should look like, and how it should be read. Third, paratexts: a section which asks how two opposite paratexts – the dedicatory epistle and the epilogue – balance their own genre norms with those of their appended text.
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Genre Trouble in Early Modern English Writing (1500–1800)
Trouble dans le genre dans l’écriture de la première modernité en Angleterre (1500-1800)Edited by Emma Bartel and Katie Ebner-Landy-
Generic Hybridity
Hybridité générique-
Mélanges rhétoriques : Hermogène de Tarse et la notion de l’hybridité dans la théorie littéraire de la Renaissance anglaise
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La pastorale populaire de Spenser : amalgames et problèmes génériques dans The Shepheardes Calender
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Life-Writing
Récit de vie-
L’exemplarité à la première modernité : stratégies de lecture et l’affirmation de l’identité et de l’autorité de la lectrice dans les récits de vie de Mary Ward, Dionys Fitzherbert et Elizabeth Isham
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L'exemplarité matriarcale dans le Booke of Rememberance d'Elizabeth Isham
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Paratexts
Paratextes-
« I feare to prefixe to these few poems a long epistle » : dédicaces, adresses au lecteur et influences génériques
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« “His Comedie unto his Theatre” : le genre dans l’épilogue dramatique de la première modernité »
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Body building, (dé)construire le corps en littérature
‘Body Building,’ (De)constructing the Body in LiteratureEdited by Quitterie de Beauregard, Alice Clabaut and Marie Duic-
Introduction: ‘Body Building,’ (De)constructing the Body in Literature
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Bodies Turned On and Turned Away: The Building of a Machinic Point-of-view in David Cronenberg’s Crash (1996) and Cosmopolis (2012)
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De l’Esthétisation à l’anti-symbolisme : les évolutions du corps chez William Carlos Williams [Full text]From Aestheticized to Anti-symbolic Bodies in William Carlos Williams’s Works
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A Body of One’s Own : Sharon Olds’ Odes and the rewriting of the blazon
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Diegetic Pregnancy in Jesse Greengrass’s Sight (2018), or the Ethics of Building Bodies in(to) Literature [Full text]Grossesse diégétique dans Sight (2018) de Jessie Greengrass, ou de l’éthique de construire les corps dans la littérature
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