Ebook: Pastoral (The New Critical Idiom)
Author: Terry Gifford
- Series: The New Critical Idiom
- Year: 1999
- Publisher: Routledge
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- pdf
Is the pastoral dead? Gifford adds fuel to the fiery debate in this lively examination of contemporary and classical nature writing. He begins by clarifying the different uses of "pastoral" and tracing the history of the genre from its classical origins in the poetic dialogues of supposed shepherds, to the Elizabethan dramas such as The Winter's Tale, through the pastoral poetry of Pope and Wordsworth, to the more recent rural novels and contemporary American nature writing. Including pastoral and antipastoral texts, the book traces the pastoral impulse of retreat and return with close readings of quoted texts, cultural studies, and ecocriticism.
Download the book Pastoral (The New Critical Idiom) for free or read online
Continue reading on any device:
Last viewed books
Related books
{related-news}
Comments (0)