{"product_id":"mutating-idylls","title":"Mutating Idylls","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMutating Idylls \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the surprising presence of the antique literary topos of the idyllic landscape, the \u003ci\u003elocus amoenus\u003c\/i\u003e, in European literature from the latter half of the nineteenth century. The book sets out to identify how this topos, which generally has no place in politically and socially realistic and naturalist literature, actually does have a role to play. Chapters on central nineteenth-century authors such as Flaubert, Zola, Fontane, Verga, Hamsun, Austen, Eliot, Wilde, Jiménez, Cernuda, and Galdós demonstrate both the presence and the multiple refunctionalizations of the \u003ci\u003elocus amoenus\u003c\/i\u003e. The theoretical aim of \u003ci\u003eMutating Idylls \u003c\/i\u003eis to rehabilitate the notion of literary topos. This feature is present in the introduction as a possibility in literary studies today. The chapters all argue in the direction of a notion of topos, which is more flexible than the one Curtius defines along the lines of formula or cliché. In this way, the book intervenes in at least three major fields of study: nineteenth-century studies, classical philology, and literary theory. Through empirical analyses covering diverse authors who all, more or less unconsciously, use the \u003ci\u003elocus amoenus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMutating Idylls \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a new understanding of the culture of writing in the nineteenth century and contributes to literary theory a rehabilitation of the important notion of the topos.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54226478760280,"sku":"9781433161681","price":90.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781433161681.jpg?v=1777095920","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/mutating-idylls","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}