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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... imagination of primitive man and the sophisticated products of the modern societies . " 7 But one is not necessarily seeking to aggrandize or revere literature if one argues that certain literary forms or conventions or modes en- able ...
... imagination of primitive man and the sophisticated products of the modern societies . " 7 But one is not necessarily seeking to aggrandize or revere literature if one argues that certain literary forms or conventions or modes en- able ...
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... imagination . Earlier critics might have thought that it represents the Golden Age , but that fiction itself would now be taken to represent a state of mind . This book will argue that we will have a far truer idea of pastoral if we ...
... imagination . Earlier critics might have thought that it represents the Golden Age , but that fiction itself would now be taken to represent a state of mind . This book will argue that we will have a far truer idea of pastoral if we ...
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... imagination , Marvell was the first poet to make the mower the representative pastoral lover . A similar account , similarly based on Burke's ideas , allows us to understand the place of landscape in pastoral . However much we argue ...
... imagination , Marvell was the first poet to make the mower the representative pastoral lover . A similar account , similarly based on Burke's ideas , allows us to understand the place of landscape in pastoral . However much we argue ...
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... imaginative worlds . Whatever its cause , the shift from childhood to landscape has an important theoretical and interpretive consequence . It removes time and its necessities from the model of nature and poetry , and thus conceals from ...
... imaginative worlds . Whatever its cause , the shift from childhood to landscape has an important theoretical and interpretive consequence . It removes time and its necessities from the model of nature and poetry , and thus conceals from ...
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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