A01=Paul Alpers
Author_Paul Alpers
Category=DSA
Category=DSB
cervantes
country life
criticism
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fiction
genre
herd
herding
human beings
humanity
humble
idealization
idealized manner
literary
livestock
lyricism
narration
natural world
nature
nostalgia
pastoral
representation
robert frost
rural themes
ruralism
sarah orne jewett
shepherds
simplicity
speakers
virgil
western literature
william shakespeare
Product details
- ISBN 9780226015170
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 17 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 1997
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this work, the 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 aims to bring the story of the pastoral tradition, previously limited to classical and Renaissance literature, into the 20th century. Pastoral re-emerges 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.
