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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... become almost insupportable , and Levi increasingly feels distress , even anguish , at his inability to remember all the verses . But however unpastoral it becomes , the episode forcibly suggests the importance of the kind of poetry ...
... become almost insupportable , and Levi increasingly feels distress , even anguish , at his inability to remember all the verses . But however unpastoral it becomes , the episode forcibly suggests the importance of the kind of poetry ...
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... become a deflection when the given terminology , or calculus , is not suited to the subject matter which it is designed to calcu- late . Dramatism suggests a procedure to be followed in the development of a given calculus , or ...
... become a deflection when the given terminology , or calculus , is not suited to the subject matter which it is designed to calcu- late . Dramatism suggests a procedure to be followed in the development of a given calculus , or ...
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... becomes the representative anecdote of the last third of the book ; and a railway terminal , which provides a wonderful inventive page , but which is finally rejected because it is so physical that the human realities and connections it ...
... becomes the representative anecdote of the last third of the book ; and a railway terminal , which provides a wonderful inventive page , but which is finally rejected because it is so physical that the human realities and connections it ...
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... become clear until the 1850 version gives the line a context which releases its meanings . " Time's uncounted hours " is a ... becomes representative ( i.e. , characteristic ) of the way desire dissi- pates a sense of the idyllic . In ...
... become clear until the 1850 version gives the line a context which releases its meanings . " Time's uncounted hours " is a ... becomes representative ( i.e. , characteristic ) of the way desire dissi- pates a sense of the idyllic . In ...
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... become a recognizable character type in the Renaissance , be- cause they utter various kinds of moral counsel which are felt to be implicit in accepting that shepherds ' lives represent human lives . The old shepherds of The Shepheardes ...
... become a recognizable character type in the Renaissance , be- cause they utter various kinds of moral counsel which are felt to be implicit in accepting that shepherds ' lives represent human lives . The old shepherds of The Shepheardes ...
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Adam Bede Appleton House Arcadia begins bird brings bucolic calls Cardenio chapter character Colin Clout critics Daphnis and Chloe Diana Don Quixote double Dunnet Eclogue Empson episode erotic feel fiction figure final flowers genre goatherd herdsmen human Idyll imagination innocence landscape lines literary lives lovers Lycidas lyric Marvell's means Melibee Meliboeus's mode Mopsus mower naive narrative narrator's nature novel nymphs passage pastoral convention pastoral elegy pastoral narration pastoral poetry pastoral representation pastoral romance pastoral speaker Pedlar Phebe phrase play poem poet poet's poetic present question reader Renaissance representative anecdote Rosalind Ruined Cottage rural rustic says scene seems self-representation sense sestina Shakespeare Shepheardes Calender shepherds Silas Marner Silas's simply singer singing Sireno song speaks speech Spenser's stanza story suggests tale Theocritean Theocritus Theocritus's Thyrsis tion Tityrus Tityrus's toral traditional University Press utterance verse versions of pastoral Virgil's Virgilian voice words Wordsworth