Pastoral
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TextPublication details: Oxon Routledge 2009Description: 186pISBN: 9780415147330Subject(s): Literary form | Pastoral literature, EnglishDDC classification: 809.933 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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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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