| Description |
1 online resource (289 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in English Literature ; 5 |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Introduction; I. The Style, the Mode, and their Relationships; A. What Periphrase Meant; B. What Decorum Meant; C. What Pastoral Meant; II. Periphrasis with a Purpose; A. Periphrase in Practice; 1. Sir Philip Sidney: Periphrase in Arcadia; 2. Edmund Spenser: Periphrase at the Service of Decorum in the Eclogues; 3. Pastoral Language in Spenser's Imitators; B. The Mechanics of Periphrase; 1. Introductory and Transitional Periphrase; 2. The Meaningful Use of Incidental Periphrase; 3. Periphrases less Directly Connected with the Pastoral Mode |
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C. Creation of the Artificial Scene through Conventions of Allegory and PeriphraseD. The Relation of Periphrase to Pastoral Realism; 1. The Relation of Periphrase and Pastoral Realism to Mixed Allegory; 2. Sheep, and the Changing Effects of Conventional Allusion; E. The Power of the Tradition and its Relation to Periphrase; III. Periphrase without Purpose; A. Pastoral Reality in a Metaphorical Field; B. The Golden Pastoral; C. Periphrastic Expression of Natural Sympathy; D. Nymphs and Shepherds; IV. Conclusion; A. The Tradition; B. Natural Sympathy, Divorced from Observation of Nature |
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C. Realism through Comic ParticularityD. Periphrase without System; E. Convention; Bibliography |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Pastoral poetry, English -- History and criticism
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English poetry -- History and criticism -- Early modern, 1500-1700
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Periphrasis.
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English poetry -- Early modern
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Pastoral poetry, English
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Periphrasis
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
311163244X |
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9783111632445 |
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