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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... shepherds gather at noon in what is both fictionally and metaphorically a space for exchanging conversation and song . Levi's episode is particularly close to Virgil's ninth Eclogue , in which two shepherds , obliged to walk to a ...
... shepherds gather at noon in what is both fictionally and metaphorically a space for exchanging conversation and song . Levi's episode is particularly close to Virgil's ninth Eclogue , in which two shepherds , obliged to walk to a ...
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... shepherds , one must avoid the 15. The difference between Colletet's Discours ( a 47 - page duodecimo ) and Rapin's Dissertatio is the more striking because their materials are often similar . Rapin's anecdote of the shepherd singing ...
... shepherds , one must avoid the 15. The difference between Colletet's Discours ( a 47 - page duodecimo ) and Rapin's Dissertatio is the more striking because their materials are often similar . Rapin's anecdote of the shepherd singing ...
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... Shepherds be represented according to the Genius of the golden Age " ( 33 ) . The word " genius " shows that Rapin's concern is not mere imitation of an exter- nal reality ( which he knows never existed ) but an informing notion that ...
... Shepherds be represented according to the Genius of the golden Age " ( 33 ) . The word " genius " shows that Rapin's concern is not mere imitation of an exter- nal reality ( which he knows never existed ) but an informing notion that ...
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... shepherds , in whom , the commentator E.K. says , " be represented two formes of pastoures or Ministers . " 17 Their debate concerns the spiritual shepherd's attitude towards his flock , and it centers pre- cisely on two competing ...
... shepherds , in whom , the commentator E.K. says , " be represented two formes of pastoures or Ministers . " 17 Their debate concerns the spiritual shepherd's attitude towards his flock , and it centers pre- cisely on two competing ...
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... shepherds as Wordsworth knew it . In Burke's terms , the anecdotes do not provide an adequate descriptive termi- nology . But in revising the poem , Wordsworth brought out the continuity between past versions of pastoral and present ...
... shepherds as Wordsworth knew it . In Burke's terms , the anecdotes do not provide an adequate descriptive termi- nology . But in revising the poem , Wordsworth brought out the continuity between past versions of pastoral and present ...
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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