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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... singing their predecessors , Virgil's shep- herds and the poet himself question the extent to which such revoicing ... sing and whose return they still hope for - they both question and hold out the possibility that is felt so strongly ...
... singing their predecessors , Virgil's shep- herds and the poet himself question the extent to which such revoicing ... sing and whose return they still hope for - they both question and hold out the possibility that is felt so strongly ...
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... singing alone resembles Colletet's portrait of the shepherd ( 12-13 ) , which itself derives from Scaliger ( 1.4 , in Frederick M. Padelford , ed . and trans . , Select Translations from Scaliger's Poetics [ New York : Henry Holt , 1905 ] ...
... singing alone resembles Colletet's portrait of the shepherd ( 12-13 ) , which itself derives from Scaliger ( 1.4 , in Frederick M. Padelford , ed . and trans . , Select Translations from Scaliger's Poetics [ New York : Henry Holt , 1905 ] ...
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... singing contests that sometimes have winners and sometimes end in ties , and with its double notion of all Arcadians being singers and yet of there being master singers who are preeminent among them . The passage concludes with two ...
... singing contests that sometimes have winners and sometimes end in ties , and with its double notion of all Arcadians being singers and yet of there being master singers who are preeminent among them . The passage concludes with two ...
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... singers , and , in the account of the gifts , herdsmen as herdsmen . This multiplicity of features itself suggests ... singing and say that these herdsmen represent poets . The question of what is represented is more elusive if we take ...
... singers , and , in the account of the gifts , herdsmen as herdsmen . This multiplicity of features itself suggests ... singing and say that these herdsmen represent poets . The question of what is represented is more elusive if we take ...
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... singing , explicitly refers to contemporary Rome , and concerns a coun- tryside disrupted by the aftermath of civil war . But if we take herdsmen's lives as the representative anecdote of pastoral , we can see that Virgil is reinterpret ...
... singing , explicitly refers to contemporary Rome , and concerns a coun- tryside disrupted by the aftermath of civil war . But if we take herdsmen's lives as the representative anecdote of pastoral , we can see that Virgil is reinterpret ...
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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