Gifford, Terry
Pastoral - Oxon Routledge 2009 - 186p.
Pastoral is a succinct and up-to-date introductory text to the history, major writers and critical issues of this genre. Terry Gifford clarifies the different uses of pastoral covering:
the history of the genre from its classical origins to Elizabethan drama, through eighteenth-century pastoral poetry to contemporary American nature writing
the pastoral impulse of retreat and return, beginning with constructions of Arcadia and using a combination of close reading of quoted texts, cultural studies and eco-criticism
post-pastoral texts with a look at writers, who Gifford argues, have discovered ways of reconnecting us with our natural environment.
9780415147330
Literary form
Pastoral literature, English
809.933 / GIF/P
Pastoral - Oxon Routledge 2009 - 186p.
Pastoral is a succinct and up-to-date introductory text to the history, major writers and critical issues of this genre. Terry Gifford clarifies the different uses of pastoral covering:
the history of the genre from its classical origins to Elizabethan drama, through eighteenth-century pastoral poetry to contemporary American nature writing
the pastoral impulse of retreat and return, beginning with constructions of Arcadia and using a combination of close reading of quoted texts, cultural studies and eco-criticism
post-pastoral texts with a look at writers, who Gifford argues, have discovered ways of reconnecting us with our natural environment.
9780415147330
Literary form
Pastoral literature, English
809.933 / GIF/P