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

by Judith Haber

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Traditionally, critics of the English Renaissance have viewed pastoral as a static, idealizing genre, aimed at the recreation of an idyllic past. More recently, these idealizing humanist approaches have been forcefully challenged by studies written from historicist perspectives. In Pastoral and the Poetics of Self-Contradiction, first published in 1995, Judith Haber complicates the conventional opposition between humanist and historicist criticism...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521034612

ISBN13:9780521034616

Release Date:December 2006

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:236 Pages

Weight:0.67 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Poetry

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