Pastoral
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TextPublication details: London Routledge 1999Edition: 1stDescription: xii,186pISBN: 0-415-14733-6Subject(s): Literature-criticismDDC classification: 801.95 Summary: 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.
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| 801.95 EAS/U The unconscious | 801.95 ENG English critical texts: 16th century to 20th century | 801.95 ENG English critical texts: 16th century to 20th century | 801.95 GIF/P Pastoral | 801.95 GUE/H A handbook of critical approaches to literature | 801.95 HAB/M Modern literary criticism and theory: a history | 801.95 HAW/I Ideology |
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.
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