Pastoral

ISBN-13: 9781138124844 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 232 str.

Terry Gifford (University of Chicester

Opis

Updated throughout, this new edition provides a clear and invaluable introduction to the study of Pastoral. Terry Gifford traces the history of the genre from its classical origins through to contemporary writing and introduces the major writers and critical issues relating to Pastoral

Spis treści

1. Three kinds of pastoral 2 Constructions of arcadia 3. The dsicourse of retreat 4. The cultural contexts of return 5. The anti-pastoral tradition 6. Post-pastoral

O autorze

Terry Gifford is Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University’s Research Centre for Environmental Humanities and Senior Research Fellow at the  Universidad de Alicante, Spain. He is author of Green Voices: Understanding Contemporary Nature Poetry and editor of Ted Hughes in Context.