This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.
This slim book comprises four lectures which Colie delivered in May 1972, and didn't have the opportunity to revisit and revise. Inevitably there were moments where I would have liked more detail, but I really enjoyed the way Colie writes about genre, and I found this book sparking my own ideas.