| Description |
xv, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : re-inscribing pastoral in the humanities / Mathilde Skoie and Sonia Bjornstad Velazquez -- 1. 'Using green words' or 'abusing bucolic ground' / Timothy Saunders -- 2. Post-pastoral as a tool for ecocriticism / Terry Gifford -- 3. 'The philoctetes problem' and the poetics of pastoral / Paul Alpers -- 4. Aesthetics and ethics of Poikilia in Longus' Daphnis and Chloe / Michel Briand -- 5. 'Still under that hawthorn!' : pastoral in Tony Harrison's elegy in an urban graveyard / Juan Christian Pellicer -- 6. Playing shepherd : allegory, fiction, reality of pastoral games / Francoise Lavocat -- 7. Care of the self : Foucault, Guevara, and the complexities of courtly and country life / Luis F. Aviles -- 8. Inscribing dialogue in pastoral poetics and criticism / Brian W. Breed -- 9. The pipe that can imitate all pipes : Longus' Daphnis and Chloe and the intertextual polyphony of pastoral music / Thomas K. Hubbard -- 10. Agonistic poetics in Virgil's third eclogue / Andromache Karanika -- 11. Eco-logical or echo-logical? : on the pastoral mode in Malcolm Lowry's 'the forest path to the spring' / Henrik Otterberg -- 12. The Concert Champetre and the poetics of dispossession / Jonathan Unglaub |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [168]-178) and index |
| Subject |
Pastoral literature -- History and criticism.
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Arcadia in literature.
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| Author |
Skoie, Mathilde.
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Bjørnstad-Velásquez, Sonia
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| LC no. |
013311081 |
| ISBN |
1904675581 hardback |
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