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100 1 $aAlpers, Paul J.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80019626
245 10 $aWhat is pastoral? /$cPaul Alpers.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c1996.
300 $axiii, 429 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tRepresentative Anecdotes and Ideas of Pastoral --$g2.$tMode and Genre --$g3.$tPastoral Convention --$g4.$tRepresentative Shepherds --$g5.$tPastoral Speakers --$g6.$tPastoral Lyrics and Their Speakers --$g7.$tModern Pastoral Lyricism --$g8.$tPastoral Narration --$g9.$tPastoral Novels.
520 $aOne 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.
520 8 $aRanging from Virgil's Eclogues to Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs, from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Wordsworth, Hardy, and Frost, this work brings the story of the pastoral tradition, previously limited to classical and Renaissance literature, into the twentieth century.
520 8 $aPastoral reemerges in this account not as a vehicle of nostalgia for some Golden Age, nor of escape to idyllic landscapes, but as a means of dealing with the loss, decline, and deprivation that motivate pastoral, and of maintaining a sense of human community despite these woes.
520 8 $aAlpers argues that the heart of literary pastoral is the representation of herdsmen and their lives. Pastoral does not depict herdsmen "realistically," but its concern with the limitations of their lives, their vulnerabilities and social dependencies, determines its various conventions and usages, including the character of the singing that dominates many pastorals and makes the herdsman a figure of the poet.
650 0 $aPastoral literature$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010105198
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