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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... follow after knowledge and excellence . 1. The book is published in England under this title , which correctly translates the Italian title , Se questo è un uomo . In the United States it is called Survival in Auschwitz . I quote from ...
... follow after knowledge and excellence . 1. The book is published in England under this title , which correctly translates the Italian title , Se questo è un uomo . In the United States it is called Survival in Auschwitz . I quote from ...
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... follows : He climbed out and I followed him , blinking in the brightness of the day . It was warmish outside , the sun drew a faint smell of paint and tar from the greasy earth , which made me think of a holiday beach of my infancy ...
... follows : He climbed out and I followed him , blinking in the brightness of the day . It was warmish outside , the sun drew a faint smell of paint and tar from the greasy earth , which made me think of a holiday beach of my infancy ...
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... follow Foucault's account of " classical " representation , it seeks to signify a reality that is separate from it ( and thus has the effect of bypassing the question of actual historical origin ) but of which it permits a clear and ...
... follow Foucault's account of " classical " representation , it seeks to signify a reality that is separate from it ( and thus has the effect of bypassing the question of actual historical origin ) but of which it permits a clear and ...
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... follow the statement , " And shepherds were the men that pleased me first , " and go as follows in the 1805 version : Not such as , in Arcadian fastnesses Sequestered , handed down among themselves , So ancient poets sing , the golden ...
... follow the statement , " And shepherds were the men that pleased me first , " and go as follows in the 1805 version : Not such as , in Arcadian fastnesses Sequestered , handed down among themselves , So ancient poets sing , the golden ...
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... follows simple nature and feeling , and limits himself solely to imitation of actuality , he can have only a single relationship to his subject " ( 195 ) . From this single relationship arises our own singleness of feeling as we read ...
... follows simple nature and feeling , and limits himself solely to imitation of actuality , he can have only a single relationship to his subject " ( 195 ) . From this single relationship arises our own singleness of feeling as we read ...
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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