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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... poetics of pastoral is not the paragraph in the Apology for Poetry , but the narra- tor's introduction of the " First ... poetic expression par excellence of the cult of aesthetic Platonism " or , alternatively , of the philo- genre . In ...
... poetics of pastoral is not the paragraph in the Apology for Poetry , but the narra- tor's introduction of the " First ... poetic expression par excellence of the cult of aesthetic Platonism " or , alternatively , of the philo- genre . In ...
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... poet and the lives he represents . As You Like It is made to anticipate this sus- pended meaning by the account of ... poet and his human community — a double- ness certainly felt by the egotist who called the poet 20 One.
... poet and the lives he represents . As You Like It is made to anticipate this sus- pended meaning by the account of ... poet and his human community — a double- ness certainly felt by the egotist who called the poet 20 One.
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... poetic representations of nature or of landscape are not all of a piece ; they answer to and express various human ... poetics , which , so far as it concerns pastoral , has its profoundest statement in Friedrich Schiller's On Naive and ...
... poetic representations of nature or of landscape are not all of a piece ; they answer to and express various human ... poetics , which , so far as it concerns pastoral , has its profoundest statement in Friedrich Schiller's On Naive and ...
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... poet . ( 194 ) What might appear a slippage between types of poetry and types of poet con- veys one of Schiller's deepest insights and contributions to theory . His atten- tion to structures of temperament and their relation to ...
... poet . ( 194 ) What might appear a slippage between types of poetry and types of poet con- veys one of Schiller's deepest insights and contributions to theory . His atten- tion to structures of temperament and their relation to ...
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... poet's relation to the ideal on the one hand and ac- tuality on the other , Schiller derives all modes of modern poetry : Since in this case there is a plurality of principles it depends which of the two will predominate in the ...
... poet's relation to the ideal on the one hand and ac- tuality on the other , Schiller derives all modes of modern poetry : Since in this case there is a plurality of principles it depends which of the two will predominate in the ...
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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