Sidney's Poetic Justice: The Old Arcadia, Its Eclogues, and Renaissance Pastoral TraditionsBucknell University Press, 1986 - 277 páginas The first book-length study of The Old Arcadia as a Renaissance pastoral romance. Stillman focuses attention on the 27 eclogues that Sidney sets within his prose narrative. |
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... interpreted as the product of " submission to an absolute ... authority " such as church or state , or the result of attacking and destroying some " threatening Other " perceived as hostile to the self , as it is for Greenblatt's ...
... interpreted as the product of " submission to an absolute ... authority " such as church or state , or the result of attacking and destroying some " threatening Other " perceived as hostile to the self , as it is for Greenblatt's ...
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... interpretation of The Old Arcadia , but they are also reliable indicators of the major literary traditions to which the work as a whole responds — and those traditions , I am convinced , are predominantly pastoral . This is the first ...
... interpretation of The Old Arcadia , but they are also reliable indicators of the major literary traditions to which the work as a whole responds — and those traditions , I am convinced , are predominantly pastoral . This is the first ...
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... interpretation they have given to it , an awkward narrative device . Its " “ awkwardness , " it can be shown , is both indisputable and inten- tional.3 The events that Sidney permits Kerxenus to attribute , on the one hand , to the ...
... interpretation they have given to it , an awkward narrative device . Its " “ awkwardness , " it can be shown , is both indisputable and inten- tional.3 The events that Sidney permits Kerxenus to attribute , on the one hand , to the ...
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... interpreted , then , as an unusual and brilliant variation upon a more comprehensive and more frequently repeated theme of pastoral literature : that the rural life offers a de- fense against adversity or a remedy for its worst effects ...
... interpreted , then , as an unusual and brilliant variation upon a more comprehensive and more frequently repeated theme of pastoral literature : that the rural life offers a de- fense against adversity or a remedy for its worst effects ...
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... interpreted . Whether one turns to Suetonian biog- raphies of the poet ( sometimes included at the front of the texts ) , to commentaries inspired by Servius ( often interspersed among the poems themselves ) , or to arguments prefacing ...
... interpreted . Whether one turns to Suetonian biog- raphies of the poet ( sometimes included at the front of the texts ) , to commentaries inspired by Servius ( often interspersed among the poems themselves ) , or to arguments prefacing ...
Contenido
19 | |
Pastoralism and Generic Definition | 47 |
As Critic and Poet Sidney Defines Pastoral | 64 |
From Prose to Poetry | 81 |
Book One The Divided Mind | 98 |
Book Two The Consequences of the Divided Mind | 117 |
Book Three Contentment and Justice | 133 |
Book Four Discontentation and Injustice | 150 |
Nature and Art in The Old Arcadia | 175 |
Notes | 229 |
Works Cited | 255 |
Index | 268 |
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Sidney's Poetic Justice: The Old Arcadia, Its Eclogues, and Renaissance ... Robert E. Stillman Vista de fragmentos - 1986 |
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