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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... social upheavals that have put one of them on the road and then recite fragments of songs to each other . The poem even shares with its real - life counterpart one speaker's inability to remember all the verses he wishes to recite ...
... social upheavals that have put one of them on the road and then recite fragments of songs to each other . The poem even shares with its real - life counterpart one speaker's inability to remember all the verses he wishes to recite ...
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... social phenomena and that any verbal activity occurs not de novo but in some institutional context , what Wittgenstein called a " language game . " Literary expression , in this view , is a particularly formalized or institutionalized ...
... social phenomena and that any verbal activity occurs not de novo but in some institutional context , what Wittgenstein called a " language game . " Literary expression , in this view , is a particularly formalized or institutionalized ...
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... social contract or the state of nature — not a but the anecdote which will be representative of all human motives . It may well be asked whether the representative anecdote so conceived can legitimately be 9. These examples of ...
... social contract or the state of nature — not a but the anecdote which will be representative of all human motives . It may well be asked whether the representative anecdote so conceived can legitimately be 9. These examples of ...
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... social encounter of courtier and rustic . Perhaps the most remarkable example occurs in Book VIII of The Prelude , in which Wordsworth surveys and , in some sense , dismisses traditional pastoral . The lines follow the statement , " And ...
... social encounter of courtier and rustic . Perhaps the most remarkable example occurs in Book VIII of The Prelude , in which Wordsworth surveys and , in some sense , dismisses traditional pastoral . The lines follow the statement , " And ...
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... social realities . The rest of the eclogue seems to confirm this assumption . It has no pastoral singing , explicitly refers to contemporary Rome , and concerns a coun- tryside disrupted by the aftermath of civil war . But if we take ...
... social realities . The rest of the eclogue seems to confirm this assumption . It has no pastoral singing , explicitly refers to contemporary Rome , and concerns a coun- tryside disrupted by the aftermath of civil war . But if we take ...
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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