Gifford, T (1999) Pastoral. Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415147330
Abstract
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 Gifford argues, have discovered ways of reconnecting us with our natural environment.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Note: | Part of the 'New Critical Idiom' series. |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BH Aesthetics G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0441 Literary History P Language and Literature > PR English literature P Language and Literature > PS American literature |
| Divisions: | School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jul 2017 16:02 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Jan 2022 15:25 |
| URI / Page ID: | https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/8608 |
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