Pastoral Paperback / softback
by Terry (University of Chicester, UK) Gifford
Part of the The New Critical Idiom series
Paperback / softback
Description
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 writingthe 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-criticismpost-pastoral texts with a look at writers, who Gifford argues, have discovered ways of reconnecting us with our natural environment.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:05/08/1999
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- ISBN:9780415147330
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:05/08/1999
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415147330
