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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.
| ISBN | 1904675581 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9781904675587
(What's this?) | | Pages | 240 | | Publisher | University of Exeter Press | | Volumes | 1 | | Imprint | Bristol Phoenix Press | | Published in | Exeter | | Format | Hardback | | Series title | Bristol Phoenix Press - Edited Volumes | | Publication date | 08 Dec 2006 | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Library of Congress | PN | | Width (mm) | 156 | | DEWEY | 809.93321734 | | Academic level | Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | Introduction : re-inscribing pastoral in the humanities by Mathilde Skoie and Sonia Bjornstad Velazquez | | | | 1 | | 'Using green words' or 'abusing bucolic ground' by Timothy Saunders | | 3 | | 2 | | Post-pastoral as a tool for ecocriticism by Terry Gifford | | 14 | | 3 | | 'The philoctetes problem' and the poetics of pastoral by Paul Alpers | | 27 | | 4 | | Aesthetics and ethics of Poikilia in Longus' Daphnis and Chloe by Michel Briand | | 42 | | 5 | | 'Still under that hawthorn!' : pastoral in Tony Harrison's elegy in an urban graveyard by Juan Christian Pellicer | | 53 | | 6 | | Playing shepherd : allegory, fiction, reality of pastoral games by Francoise Lavocat | | 65 | | 7 | | Care of the self : Foucault, Guevara, and the complexities of courtly and country life by Luis F. Aviles | | 78 | | 8 | | Inscribing dialogue in pastoral poetics and criticism by Brian W. Breed | | 89 | | 9 | | The pipe that can imitate all pipes : Longus' Daphnis and Chloe and the intertextual polyphony of pastoral music by Thomas K. Hubbard | | 101 | | 10 | | Agonistic poetics in Virgil's third eclogue by Andromache Karanika | | 107 | | 11 | | Eco-logical or echo-logical? : on the pastoral mode in Malcolm Lowry's 'the forest path to the spring' by Henrik Otterberg | | 117 | | 12 | | The Concert Champetre and the poetics of dispossession by Jonathan Unglaub | | 126 |
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