Remembered Words: Essays on Genre, Realism, and Emblems

by Alastair Fowler

Remembered Words is a selection of Alastair Fowler's essays on genre, realism, and the emblem (three interrelated subjects), published over six decades. It offers readers a way to arrive at a sense of how approaches to these subjects have changed over that period. Specifically, it shows how genre has come to be understood in terms of family resemblance theory. Remembered Words argues that realism can be seen as altering historically, so that Renaissance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198856970
• ISBN13: 9780198856979
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"