Pastoral
Terry Gifford, "Pastoral"
English | 1999 | ISBN: 0415147336, 1138124842, 0415147328 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 0.3 mb
English | 1999 | ISBN: 0415147336, 1138124842, 0415147328 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 0.3 mb
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.