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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... turns to anthropology —— an account of the origins of pastoral and a sort of ethnography of pastoral objects . Some twenty years later , Antonio Viperano published De Poetica Libri Tres ( An- twerp , 1579 ) . The treatment of genre in ...
... turns to anthropology —— an account of the origins of pastoral and a sort of ethnography of pastoral objects . Some twenty years later , Antonio Viperano published De Poetica Libri Tres ( An- twerp , 1579 ) . The treatment of genre in ...
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... turns out to be a number of things . We are told that pastoral " is a double longing after innocence and happiness " ; that it is based on the philosophical antithesis of Art and Nature ; that its universal idea is the Golden Age ; that ...
... turns out to be a number of things . We are told that pastoral " is a double longing after innocence and happiness " ; that it is based on the philosophical antithesis of Art and Nature ; that its universal idea is the Golden Age ; that ...
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... turn the chapter on " Scope and Reduction " into an ac- count of divine Creation as the act of acts ; in his later work it has caused him to replace dramatism by the transformed theology he calls " Logology . " 10 These elisions and ...
... turn the chapter on " Scope and Reduction " into an ac- count of divine Creation as the act of acts ; in his later work it has caused him to replace dramatism by the transformed theology he calls " Logology . " 10 These elisions and ...
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... turns his Aristotelian analysis to other categories . In depicting the " manners " of shepherds , one must avoid the 15. The difference between Colletet's Discours ( a 47 - page duodecimo ) and Rapin's Dissertatio is the more striking ...
... turns his Aristotelian analysis to other categories . In depicting the " manners " of shepherds , one must avoid the 15. The difference between Colletet's Discours ( a 47 - page duodecimo ) and Rapin's Dissertatio is the more striking ...
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... turn to the beginning of pastoral poetry as we know it - the opening lines of Theocritus's first idyll : Thyrsis . Sweet is the whispering music of yonder pine that sings Over the water - brooks , and sweet the melody of your pipe ...
... turn to the beginning of pastoral poetry as we know it - the opening lines of Theocritus's first idyll : Thyrsis . Sweet is the whispering music of yonder pine that sings Over the water - brooks , and sweet the melody of your pipe ...
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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