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Author Name: Alpers, Paul J.
Title: What Is Pastoral?
Binding: Soft Cover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Univ of Chicago Pr 1997
ISBN Number: 0226015173 / 9780226015170
Seller ID: 003208
Near fine trade paperback book, no dust jacket (as issued); book is clean, tight, square, and free of any markings showing light evidence of having been gently read; book cover (wrap) shows very light shelf wear but is clean, free of any creases and also in near fine condition; book now protected by newly applied Brodart clear, removeable slipcover; 429 pages including index. " One of the enduring traditions of Western literary history, pastoral is often mischaracterized as a catchall for literature about rural themes and nature in general. In What Is Pastoral?, distinguished literary historian Paul Alpers argues that pastoral is based upon a fundamental fiction--that the lives of shepherds or other socially humble figures represent the lives of human beings in general. Ranging from Virgil's Eclogues to Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs, from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Hardy and Frost, this work brings the story of the pastoral tradition, previously limited to classical and Renaissance literature, into the twentieth century. Pastoral reemerges in this account not as a vehicle of nostalgia for some Golden Age, nor of escape to idyllic landscapes, but as a mode bearing witness to the possibilities and problems of human community and shared experience in the real world. A rich and engrossing book, What Is Pastoral? will soon take its place as the definitive study of pastoral literature." (Quoted material from publisher)
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