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Book Title
What Is Pastoral?
Publication Date
1997-06-01
Pages
444
ISBN
9780226015170
Publication Year
1997
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Name
What Is Pastoral?
Item Height
0.1in
Author
Paul Alpers
Item Length
0.9in
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Item Width
0.7in
Item Weight
23.4 Oz
Number of Pages
444 Pages

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One of the enduring traditions of Western literary history, pastoral is often mischaracterized as a catchall for literature about rural themes and nature in general. In What Is Pastoral? , distinguished literary historian Paul Alpers argues that pastoral is based upon a fundamental fiction-that the lives of shepherds or other socially humble figures represent the lives of human beings in general. Ranging from Virgil's Eclogues to Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs , from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Hardy and Frost, this work brings the story of the pastoral tradition, previously limited to classical and Renaissance literature, into the twentieth century. Pastoral reemerges in this account not as a vehicle of nostalgia for some Golden Age, nor of escape to idyllic landscapes, but as a mode bearing witness to the possibilities and problems of human community and shared experience in the real world. A rich and engrossing book, What Is Pastoral? will soon take its place as the definitive study of pastoral literature. "Alpers succeeds brilliantly. . . . He] offers . . . a wealth of new insight into the origins, development, and flowering of the pastoral."-Ann-Maria Contarino, Renaissance Quarterly

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226015173
ISBN-13
9780226015170
eBay Product ID (ePID)
89142

Product Key Features

Author
Paul Alpers
Publication Name
What Is Pastoral?
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1997
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
444 Pages

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Item Length
0.9in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.7in
Item Weight
23.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Table of Content
Preface Acknowledgments Frequently Cited Works Prologue 1: Representative Anecdotes and Ideas of Pastoral 2: Mode and Genre 3: Pastoral Convention 4: Representative Shepherds 5: Pastoral Speakers 6: Pastoral Lyrics and Their Speakers 7: Modern Pastoral Lyricism 8: Pastoral Narration 9: Pastoral Novels Index
Copyright Date
1997
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
General, Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources
Lccn
95-035356
Dewey Decimal
809
Genre
Literary Criticism, Religion

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