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Pastoral (The New Critical Idiom)

By Terry Gifford

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1999
ISBN
9780415147323, 0415147328, 0415147336, 9780415147330, 9780203171172
LCC
PR149.P3 G64 1999
Open Library ID
OL15470074M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
781 kB (799696 bytes)
Series
The New Critical Idiom
Edition
1
Pages
199\199
Time added
2010-08-30 15:18:36

Description

Is the pastoral dead? Gifford adds fuel to the fiery debate in this lively examination of contemporary and classical nature writing. He begins by clarifying the different uses of "pastoral" and tracing the history of the genre from its classical origins in the poetic dialogues of supposed shepherds, to the Elizabethan dramas such as The Winter's Tale, through the pastoral poetry of Pope and Wordsworth, to the more recent rural novels and contemporary American nature writing. Including pastoral and antipastoral texts, the book traces the pastoral impulse of retreat and return with close readings of quoted texts, cultural studies, and ecocriticism.

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