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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... episode in Levi's earlier book , If This Is a Man , 1 an ac- count of his imprisonment in Auschwitz : Levi recalls a day when he and a few other prisoners were put to work scraping an underground gasoline tank . They worked in almost ...
... episode in Levi's earlier book , If This Is a Man , 1 an ac- count of his imprisonment in Auschwitz : Levi recalls a day when he and a few other prisoners were put to work scraping an underground gasoline tank . They worked in almost ...
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... episode , Irving Howe's memory has played him false . Primo Levi did quote these lines to a fellow prisoner , and his recalling them affected him as powerfully as the quoted phrases suggest . But the circumstances were different and ...
... episode , Irving Howe's memory has played him false . Primo Levi did quote these lines to a fellow prisoner , and his recalling them affected him as powerfully as the quoted phrases suggest . But the circumstances were different and ...
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... episode is particularly close to Virgil's ninth Eclogue , in which two shepherds , obliged to walk to a neighboring town , first discuss the social upheavals that have put one of them on the road and then recite fragments of songs to ...
... episode is particularly close to Virgil's ninth Eclogue , in which two shepherds , obliged to walk to a neighboring town , first discuss the social upheavals that have put one of them on the road and then recite fragments of songs to ...
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... episode , that the song of an absent master can have power in our present circumstances . When Levi remembers , blessedly without faltering , the tercet that sounds in his ear like the voice of God , Pikolo begs me to repeat it . How ...
... episode , that the song of an absent master can have power in our present circumstances . When Levi remembers , blessedly without faltering , the tercet that sounds in his ear like the voice of God , Pikolo begs me to repeat it . How ...
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... Levi's Ulysses episode show why this mode of poetry has been and should remain part of the way we value and understand our lives and our writings . One REPRESENTATIVE ANECDOTES AND IDEAS OF Pastoral 8 I Pastoral Prologue 7.
... Levi's Ulysses episode show why this mode of poetry has been and should remain part of the way we value and understand our lives and our writings . One REPRESENTATIVE ANECDOTES AND IDEAS OF Pastoral 8 I Pastoral Prologue 7.
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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