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From Theocritus "Idylls "to James Cameron s "Avatar," Arcadia remains an enduring presence in world culture and a persistent source of creative inspiration. Why does Arcadia still exercise such a powerful pull on the imagination? This book responds by arguing that in sixteenth-century Europe, a dramatic shift took place in imagining Arcadia. The traditional visions of Arcadia collided and fused with romance, the new experimental form of prose fiction, producing a hybrid, dynamic world of change and transformation. ""Emphasizing matters of fictional function and world-making over generic...

Prince of Darkness or Angel of Light? The pastoral masterpiece the "Soledades" garnered both titles for its author, Luis de Gongora, one of Spain's premier poets. In "The" Soledades, "Gongora's Masque of the Imagination, " Marsha S. Collins focuses on the brilliant seventeenth-century Spanish poet's contentious work of art. The "Soledades" have sparked controversy since they were first circulated at court in 1612-1614 and continue to do so even now, as Gongora has become for some critics the poster child of postmodernism. These perplexing 2,000-plus line pastoral poems garnered endless...