Pastoral - Brossura

Gifford, Terry

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0415147336 ISBN 13: 9780415147330

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1999

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore

Terry Gifford is Research Co-ordinator at the School of English, Bretton Hall College of Leeds University. He is author of Green Voices: Understanding Contemporary Nature Poetry.

Contenuti

1. Three kinds of pastoral  2 Constructions of arcadia  3. The dsicourse of retreat  4. The cultural contexts of return  5. The anti-pastoral tradition  6. Post-pastoral

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0415147336
• ISBN 13: 9780415147330
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 204