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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... sense , familiar to Americanists , to refer not to the specific set of obsolescent conventions of the eclogue tradition , but to all literature - poetry or prose , fiction or nonfiction — that celebrates the ethos of nature / rurality ...
... sense , familiar to Americanists , to refer not to the specific set of obsolescent conventions of the eclogue tradition , but to all literature - poetry or prose , fiction or nonfiction — that celebrates the ethos of nature / rurality ...
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... sense , as interpretation — or rather view 2. Seamus Heaney , Preoccupations : Selected Prose , 1968-1978 ( New York : Farrar , Straus , and Giroux , 1980 ) , 180 . them critically , in another sense , by questioning their X Preface.
... sense , as interpretation — or rather view 2. Seamus Heaney , Preoccupations : Selected Prose , 1968-1978 ( New York : Farrar , Straus , and Giroux , 1980 ) , 180 . them critically , in another sense , by questioning their X Preface.
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... 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 people are simply free to ...
... 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 people are simply free to ...
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... sense of this observation unfortunately leads Ettin , in my view , to a far too inclusive and impressionistic account of pastoral . Since Patterson's project involves the cultural and ideological afterlife of Representative Anecdotes ...
... sense of this observation unfortunately leads Ettin , in my view , to a far too inclusive and impressionistic account of pastoral . Since Patterson's project involves the cultural and ideological afterlife of Representative Anecdotes ...
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... sense of determining boundaries , involves dealing with the range and variety of pastoral writings as they present themselves historically . From the perspective of a formalist literary history , the central question is the relation of ...
... sense of determining boundaries , involves dealing with the range and variety of pastoral writings as they present themselves historically . From the perspective of a formalist literary history , the central question is the relation of ...
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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