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050 00 $aPR769$b.S44 1996
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100 1 $aSeelig, Sharon Cadman.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81068623
245 10 $aGenerating texts :$bthe progeny of seventeenth-century prose /$cSharon Cadman Seelig.
260 $aCharlottesville :$bUniversity Press of Virginia,$c1996.
300 $ax, 202 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gI.$tQuestions of Genre --$gII.$tDonne: Devotions upon Emergent Occasions as Meditative Form --$gIII.$tEliot: Four Quartets: The Pattern in Revision --$gIV.$tBrowne: Religio Medici as Normative Autobiography --$gV.$tThoreau: Walden: The Rhetoric of Time Illumined by Eternity --$gVI.$tBurton: The Anatomy of Melancholy: "I Have Overshot My Selfe" --$gVII.$tSterne: Tristram Shandy: The Deconstructive Text --$gVIII.$tQuestions of History.
520 $aIn Generating Texts, Sharon Cadman Seelig tests traditional notions of genre by analyzing parallels between works that confound existing categories. Seelig pairs three seventeenth-century prose works with three other works, each of a later century: Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy with Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Browne's Religio Medici with Thoreau's Walden, and Donne's Devotions upon Emergent Occasions with Eliot's Four Quartets.
520 8 $aProceeding from her authors' similarities in method and common sets of assumptions (such as concern with process and discovery, time and eternity, or the nature of the self), she uncovers parallels showing that genre is not simply a set of formal features but rather a particular way of seeing the world that grows out of authorial attitude, impulse, and occasion.
520 8 $aIn addition to its obvious appeal to students and scholars interested in Sterne, Thoreau, Eliot or seventeenth-century literature, Generating Texts should interest literary scholars and students more generally, particularly those concerned with the interconnections between literary periods and genres. Seelig has written an original and accessible contribution to the field of genre study.
650 0 $aEnglish prose literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103145
600 10 $aDonne, John,$d1572-1631.$tDevotions upon emergent occasions.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98013216
600 10 $aBrowne, Thomas,$cSir,$d1605-1682.$tReligio medici.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85144001
600 10 $aBurton, Robert,$d1577-1640.$tAnatomy of melancholy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2020186130
600 10 $aEliot, T. S.$q(Thomas Stearns),$d1888-1965.$tFour quartets.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr98039058
600 10 $aThoreau, Henry David,$d1817-1862.$tWalden.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83038633
600 10 $aSterne, Laurence,$d1713-1768.$tLife and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80025570
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xEnglish influences.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004348
650 0 $aInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85066122
650 0 $aIntertextuality.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88005212
852 00 $boff,glx$hPR769$i.S44 1996