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Pastoral and the Poetics of Self-Contradiction: Theocritus to Marvell

Pastoral and the Poetics of Self-Contradiction: Theocritus to Marvell

Haber, Judith

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0521442060
ISBN13: 9780521442060
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jan 5 1995
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.82
Language: English
The traditional view of pastoral as a static genre, aimed at the recreation of an idyllic past, has recently been challenged by historicist critics. Here Judith Haber complicates the opposition between humanist and historicist perspectives by examining ways in which pastoral poets themselves interrogate the contradictory relations inherent in their genre. Focusing on texts by Theocritus, Virgil, Sidney, and Marvell, Haber revises current understanding of pastoral, and raises wider questions about literature in society and the establishment of literary tradition.

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