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020			_a9780415147330
082			_a809.933 _bGIF/P
100			_aGifford, Terry
245			_aPastoral
260			_aOxon _bRoutledge _c2009
300			_a186p.
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			_aLiterary form
650			_aPastoral literature, English
942			_cBK
999			_c39079 _d39079