Pastoral

£94.79

Pastoral

Literary studies: general Nature and the natural world: general interest

Author: Terry Gifford

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Collection: The New Critical Idiom

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 5th August 1999

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 208 pages

ISBN: 9781134755264


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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