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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... traditional problems about pastoral . On the appropriate subject matter , he says : " All things must appear delightful and easy , nothing vitious and rough .... Every part must be full of the simplicity of the Golden Age , and of that ...
... traditional problems about pastoral . On the appropriate subject matter , he says : " All things must appear delightful and easy , nothing vitious and rough .... Every part must be full of the simplicity of the Golden Age , and of that ...
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... traditional pastoral . The lines follow the statement , " And shepherds were the men that pleased me first , " and go as follows in the 1805 version : Not such as , in Arcadian fastnesses Sequestered , handed down among themselves , So ...
... traditional pastoral . The lines follow the statement , " And shepherds were the men that pleased me first , " and go as follows in the 1805 version : Not such as , in Arcadian fastnesses Sequestered , handed down among themselves , So ...
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Paul Alpers. In the 1805 Prelude the point of the whole passage is that traditional pastoral falsely represents the life of shepherds as Wordsworth knew it . In Burke's terms , the anecdotes do not provide an adequate descriptive termi ...
Paul Alpers. In the 1805 Prelude the point of the whole passage is that traditional pastoral falsely represents the life of shepherds as Wordsworth knew it . In Burke's terms , the anecdotes do not provide an adequate descriptive termi ...
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... traditional pastoral , with its 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 ...
... traditional pastoral , with its 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 ...
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... traditional pastoral ascribes to its herdsmen . It is the latter consideration that enables us to answer the old question about whether Marvell's mower is an innovation . Mowers do appear in earlier pastorals , but Marvell's figure is ...
... traditional pastoral ascribes to its herdsmen . It is the latter consideration that enables us to answer the old question about whether Marvell's mower is an innovation . Mowers do appear in earlier pastorals , but Marvell's figure is ...
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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