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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... force from the central image of life in the Golden Age . These images include attractive maidens ( 42 , 44 , 46 ) , Adonis gardens ( 43 ) , country fare ( 43 ) , and the fruits of the land ( 56 ) . The history of pastoral criticism can ...
... force from the central image of life in the Golden Age . These images include attractive maidens ( 42 , 44 , 46 ) , Adonis gardens ( 43 ) , country fare ( 43 ) , and the fruits of the land ( 56 ) . The history of pastoral criticism can ...
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... force , as if to say what things were like in the old days . In doing this , Wordsworth suggests how ap- posite Burke's term is , and nowhere more so than in the May eclogue itself . That poem is a debate between two old shepherds , in ...
... force , as if to say what things were like in the old days . In doing this , Wordsworth suggests how ap- posite Burke's term is , and nowhere more so than in the May eclogue itself . That poem is a debate between two old shepherds , in ...
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... force . The passage on Spenser remains essentially as it was , but the opening lines are much expanded and revised : Not such as Saturn ruled ' mid Latian wilds , With arts and laws so tempered , that their lives Left , even to us ...
... force . The passage on Spenser remains essentially as it was , but the opening lines are much expanded and revised : Not such as Saturn ruled ' mid Latian wilds , With arts and laws so tempered , that their lives Left , even to us ...
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... . Various writers at various times modify the way shepherds are de- picted , on the grounds that it either does not truly represent them or that it deprives them of their representative force . In Shakespeare and 26 One.
... . Various writers at various times modify the way shepherds are de- picted , on the grounds that it either does not truly represent them or that it deprives them of their representative force . In Shakespeare and 26 One.
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Paul Alpers. deprives them of their representative force . In Shakespeare and Wordsworth we find shepherds portrayed in accordance with what is claimed to be the truth of their lives , but most modifications in the depiction of shepherds ...
Paul Alpers. deprives them of their representative force . In Shakespeare and Wordsworth we find shepherds portrayed in accordance with what is claimed to be the truth of their lives , but most modifications in the depiction of shepherds ...
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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