Pastoral

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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 Giffo ...
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Gifford
Terry - Language
- English
- Series
- The New Critical Idiom
- ISBN
- 9780415147330
- Release date
- 2012