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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... example of the phenomenon in question . Hence when a colleague asked me what would be the book's surpris- ing examples , I answered , " None . " My endeavor is rather to treat evident ex- amples , of which I seek to give convincing ...
... example of the phenomenon in question . Hence when a colleague asked me what would be the book's surpris- ing examples , I answered , " None . " My endeavor is rather to treat evident ex- amples , of which I seek to give convincing ...
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... examples interchangeably , as parts of a single account . In work- ing on this book , I discovered that the differences among the cultures and vernacular literatures of Europe make for decisive differences even in this clas- sicizing ...
... examples interchangeably , as parts of a single account . In work- ing on this book , I discovered that the differences among the cultures and vernacular literatures of Europe make for decisive differences even in this clas- sicizing ...
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... example , consider Marjorie Levinson's complaint , in discussing " The Solitary Reaper , " that " no one is exercised by the fact that Wordsworth's narrator represents himself as the ' profound ' and redemptive composer . ' " 4 The ...
... example , consider Marjorie Levinson's complaint , in discussing " The Solitary Reaper , " that " no one is exercised by the fact that Wordsworth's narrator represents himself as the ' profound ' and redemptive composer . ' " 4 The ...
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... examples in English are a paragraph in Sidney's Apology for Poetry and a short chapter in Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie . The most common sche- matic placing of pastoral was by means of the genera dicendi — the high , middle ...
... examples in English are a paragraph in Sidney's Apology for Poetry and a short chapter in Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie . The most common sche- matic placing of pastoral was by means of the genera dicendi — the high , middle ...
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... examples cited in the next paragraph show . ) " Representative , " as Burke uses it here , has a double meaning . An anecdote is representative in that ( 1 ) it is a typical instance of an aspect of 8. Kenneth Burke , A Grammar of ...
... examples cited in the next paragraph show . ) " Representative , " as Burke uses it here , has a double meaning . An anecdote is representative in that ( 1 ) it is a typical instance of an aspect of 8. Kenneth Burke , A Grammar of ...
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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