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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... situation with an almost shocking direct- ness . The incident thus evokes the heroic and tragic modes in whose terms we have learned to speak of the power of literature to move us and illuminate our lives . But in recounting this ...
... situation with an almost shocking direct- ness . The incident thus evokes the heroic and tragic modes in whose terms we have learned to speak of the power of literature to move us and illuminate our lives . But in recounting this ...
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... situation conventionally found in pastoral poems . In the pastorals of Theoc- ritus , Virgil , and their Renaissance imitators , shepherds gather at noon in what is both fictionally and metaphorically a space for exchanging conversation ...
... situation conventionally found in pastoral poems . In the pastorals of Theoc- ritus , Virgil , and their Renaissance imitators , shepherds gather at noon in what is both fictionally and metaphorically a space for exchanging conversation ...
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... situation or type of life . Viewing the passage this way , we would not try to pick out one or two features as definitive . Rather , we can see that all its features belong to a central fiction and that differ- ent features can be ...
... situation or type of life . Viewing the passage this way , we would not try to pick out one or two features as definitive . Rather , we can see that all its features belong to a central fiction and that differ- ent features can be ...
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... situations and can therefore exchange speeches , just as they propose to exchange songs and gifts . By the same token , the herds- men are in a harmonious relation to the natural setting which they share . The 20. Eclogue 1 , 1–10 ...
... situations and can therefore exchange speeches , just as they propose to exchange songs and gifts . By the same token , the herds- men are in a harmonious relation to the natural setting which they share . The 20. Eclogue 1 , 1–10 ...
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... situation he presents does not flatly deny but rather ques- tions and makes explicit the conditions under which , in the Roman world , the beginning of Idyll 1 can be representative of human singing and a way of life . After all , there ...
... situation he presents does not flatly deny but rather ques- tions and makes explicit the conditions under which , in the Roman world , the beginning of Idyll 1 can be representative of human singing and a way of life . After all , there ...
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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