What Is Pastoral?University of Chicago Press, 2011 M03 15 - 444 páginas One of the enduring traditions of Western literary history, pastoral is often mischaracterized as a catchall for literature about rural themes and nature in general. In What Is Pastoral?, distinguished literary historian Paul Alpers argues that pastoral is based upon a fundamental fiction—that the lives of shepherds or other socially humble figures represent the lives of human beings in general. Ranging from Virgil's Eclogues to Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs, from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Hardy and Frost, this work brings the story of the pastoral tradition, previously limited to classical and Renaissance literature, into the twentieth century. Pastoral reemerges in this account not as a vehicle of nostalgia for some Golden Age, nor of escape to idyllic landscapes, but as a mode bearing witness to the possibilities and problems of human community and shared experience in the real world. A rich and engrossing book, What Is Pastoral? will soon take its place as the definitive study of pastoral literature. "Alpers succeeds brilliantly. . . . [He] offers . . . a wealth of new insight into the origins, development, and flowering of the pastoral."—Ann-Maria Contarino, Renaissance Quarterly |
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... Idylls , trans . R. C. Trevelyan ( New York : Albert and Charles Boni , 1925 ) Virgil , Eclogues , Latin text and translation from Paul Alpers , The Singer of the Ec- logues ( Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press ...
... Idylls , trans . R. C. Trevelyan ( New York : Albert and Charles Boni , 1925 ) Virgil , Eclogues , Latin text and translation from Paul Alpers , The Singer of the Ec- logues ( Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press ...
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... idyll , which , he felt , was not sufficiently well defined . After twenty pages of rehashing Scaliger , surveying French eclogues , and the like , he finally comes to the idyll — about which he then says nothing except that the word ...
... idyll , which , he felt , was not sufficiently well defined . After twenty pages of rehashing Scaliger , surveying French eclogues , and the like , he finally comes to the idyll — about which he then says nothing except that the word ...
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... idyll : Thyrsis . Sweet is the whispering music of yonder pine that sings Over the water - brooks , and sweet the melody of your pipe , Dear goatherd . After Pan , the second prize you'll bear away . If he should take the hornèd goat ...
... idyll : Thyrsis . Sweet is the whispering music of yonder pine that sings Over the water - brooks , and sweet the melody of your pipe , Dear goatherd . After Pan , the second prize you'll bear away . If he should take the hornèd goat ...
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... Idylls , trans . R. C. Trevelyan ( New York : Albert and Charles Boni , 1925 ) , Idyll 1 , 1-11 . See chap . 4 , n . 1 , for comment on this and other translations . Meliboeus . Tityre , tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi 22 One.
... Idylls , trans . R. C. Trevelyan ( New York : Albert and Charles Boni , 1925 ) , Idyll 1 , 1-11 . See chap . 4 , n . 1 , for comment on this and other translations . Meliboeus . Tityre , tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi 22 One.
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... Idyll 1 can be representative of human singing and a way of life . After all , there is nothing surprising about a pastoral representation of the situ- ation in Eclogue 1. In their simplicity and vulnerability , shepherds fittingly rep ...
... Idyll 1 can be representative of human singing and a way of life . After all , there is nothing surprising about a pastoral representation of the situ- ation in Eclogue 1. In their simplicity and vulnerability , shepherds fittingly rep ...
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