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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... mind that conveys his sense of the human value of literature . What the true form of the episode tells us is that conventions of pastoral that sometimes seem callow and in bad faith - the pretense that poor , humble , and deprived ...
... mind that conveys his sense of the human value of literature . What the true form of the episode tells us is that conventions of pastoral that sometimes seem callow and in bad faith - the pretense that poor , humble , and deprived ...
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... Mind : Pastoralism and Platonic Theory in Tasso's “ Aminta " and Shakespeare's Early Comedies ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1969 ) , 6 ; ( 9 ) vita contemplativa : John D. Bernard , Ceremonies of Innocence : Pastoralism in the Poetry of ...
... Mind : Pastoralism and Platonic Theory in Tasso's “ Aminta " and Shakespeare's Early Comedies ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1969 ) , 6 ; ( 9 ) vita contemplativa : John D. Bernard , Ceremonies of Innocence : Pastoralism in the Poetry of ...
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... mind . And I think that this scaling down retrieves from Burke's own treatment a central truth of the idea of a representative anecdote . One of the great insights of the notion and of the term ( the suggestions of the particular and ...
... mind . And I think that this scaling down retrieves from Burke's own treatment a central truth of the idea of a representative anecdote . One of the great insights of the notion and of the term ( the suggestions of the particular and ...
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... mind seems to have dwelt on Phoebe sighing for the false Gany- mede , but the reasons do not become clear until the 1850 version gives the line a context which releases its meanings . " Time's uncounted hours " is a beautiful bit of ...
... mind seems to have dwelt on Phoebe sighing for the false Gany- mede , but the reasons do not become clear until the 1850 version gives the line a context which releases its meanings . " Time's uncounted hours " is a beautiful bit of ...
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... mind — an ethical attitude or a psychological yearning or a realm of the 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 ...
... mind — an ethical attitude or a psychological yearning or a realm of the 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 ...
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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