Pastoral and the Humanities: Arcadia Re-inscribedMathilde Skoie, Sonia Bjørnstad-Velázquez Bristol Phoenix Press, 2006 - 184 sider Though pastoral seems from its outset to have held the seeds of its own demise (Virgil's tenth Eclogue contemplates the irrelevance of poetry in an increasingly violent world) it has remained curiously persistent as a concept which, according to Empson, 'put(s) the complex into the simple'. Each essay in this carefully selected collection on the uses and abuses of the pastoral genre addresses pastoral as a critical concept from different disciplinary perspectives. The book is firmly rooted in pastoral's classical origins but pioneers the way forward for future study of the pastoral genre. It contains contributions from top international scholars in the field including Paul Alpers and T.K. Hubbard. |
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PostPastoral as a Tool for Ecocriticism | 14 |
The Philoctetes Problem and the Poetics of Pastoral | 27 |
Aesthetics and Ethics of Poikilia in Longus Daphnis and Chloe | 42 |
Pastoral in Tony Harrisons Elegy | 53 |
Allegory Fiction Reality of Pastoral Games | 65 |
Foucault Guevara and the Complexities | 78 |
Inscribing Dialogue in Pastoral Poetics and Criticism | 89 |
Longus Daphnis and Chloe | 101 |
Agonistic Poetics in Virgils Third Eclogue | 107 |
Ecological or Echological? On the Pastoral Mode | 117 |
The Concert Champêtre and the Poetics of Dispossession | 126 |
Notes | 147 |
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