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100	0		_aGifford, Terry
245	1	0	_aPastoral
250			_a1st.
260			_aLondon _bRoutledge _c1999
300			_axii,186p.
520			_aPastoral 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.
650	0		_aLiterature-criticism
942			_cBK
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