Isbn: 9781904675587 - pastoral and the humanities: arcadia re-inscribed (bristol phoenix press edited volumes) (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Cloth, no dj (as issued). Minor shelf wear. Else a bright, clean copy. 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.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Hard cover, no jacket, in very good condition. Green cloth boards with gilt text and illustration to front, gilt text to spine. Boards in fine condition, pages tightly bound, content unmarked. CN.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 184 p.: Ill. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Lediglich der Einband ist leicht ausgeblichen und die ersten drei Seiten weisen einen minimalen Papierschaden auf. Sonst aber ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar/ Only the binding is slightly faded and there is a minimal paper damage on the first three pages. But otherwise a good and clean copy. - CONTENTS: List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Re-inscribing Pastoral in the Humanities Mathilde Skoie and Sonia Bjornstad Velazquez Part I: Pastoral Perspectives 'Using Green Words' or 'Abusing Bucolic Ground' Timothy Saunders Post-Pastoral as a Tool for Ecocriticism Terry Gifford Part II: Pastoral Responsibilities 'The Philoctetes Problem' and the Poetics of Pastoral Paul Alpers Aesthetics and Ethics of Poikilia in Longus' Daphnis and Chloe Michel Briand 'Still under that hawthorn!': Pastoral in Tony Harrison's Elegy in an Urban Graveyard Juan Christian Pellicer Part III: Pastoral Practices: The Worlds in and out of Arcadia Playing Shepherd: Allegory, Fiction, Reality of Pastoral Games Françoise Lavocat Care of the Self: Foucault, Guevara, and the Complexities of Courtly and Country Life Luis F. Avilés Inscribing Dialogue in Pastoral Poetics and Criticism Brian W. Breed The Pipe That Can Imitate All Pipes: Longus' Daphnis and Chloe and the Intertextual Polyphony of Pastoral Music Thomas K. Hubbard Agonistic Poetics in Virgil's Third Eclogue Andromache Karanika Part V: Pastoral Resoundings Eco-logical or Echo-logical? On the Pastoral Mode in Malcolm Lowry's 'The Forest Path to the Spring' Henrik Otterberg The Concert Champêtre and the Poetics of Dispossession Jonathan Unglaub Notes Bibliography Index. ISBN 9781904675587 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 455.…