Poetics and Politics of Place in Pastoral: International Perspectives

by Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd (Editor), Charles Holdefer (Editor), Thomas Pughe (Editor)

Overview

This book offers new essays on the pastoral tradition. Both critical revision and consideration of pastoral's future, Poetics and Politics of Place in Pastoral: International Perspectives investigates the genre's persistent attraction in a time of environmental crisis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034314183
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	08/20/2015
Pages:	285
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd and Charles Holdefer teach English at the University of Poitiers. Both specialize in contemporary American fiction. Holdefer is also a published novelist. Thomas Pughe teaches English at the University of Orléans. His main field is ecocriticism. The editors are founding members of a research team on the pastoral that brings together scholars from various French universities.

Table of Contents

Contents: Andy Auckbur: «take that goodness in hand»: The Representation of Nature and the Power of Beauty in Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia – Fabien Desset: From «The Cimmerian Ravines of Modern Cities» to the «Upaithric» Temples of Pastoral Greece: The Place of Nature in Shelley’s Ancient Ruins – Mathilde Arrivé: From Wild West to Mild West: Photographic Eclogues of the Indian West in the «Post-Frontier» Era – Nancy Wolsk: Rosa Bonheur: Pastoral Visions – Amy Wells: A City Girl’s Pastoral Playground: A Geocritical Approach to Gendered Arcadia in Anaïs Nin’s Cities of the Interior – Aurore Clavier: «The Savage’s Romance»: The Culture of Pastoral in the Poetry of Marianne Moore – Andrew McKeown: A Pastoral Place in Language? The poems of Edward Thomas – Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd: The Pasture and the Freeway in Thomas Pynchon’s California – Idom Inyabri: Joe Ushie’s Pastoral Vision in Popular Stand and Hill Songs – Thomas Pughe: Pastoralism, Poetics and Politics in Three Texts by Rick Bass from the 1990s – François Specq: «Walking in the Greater Garden»: Thoreau and the Pastoral Ideal – Aurélie Griffin: The Quest for Arcadia in Philip Sidney’s Arcadia(s) and Mary Wroth’s Urania – Anne-Lise Marin-Lamellet: Pastoral Motifs in British Social-realist Cinema: Illusions and Disillusions in the Quest for a locus amoenus – Laetitia Sansonetti: Knights among shepherds: courtly pastorals in Spenser’s Faerie Queene (1596) – Charles Holdefer: Machines at Work and Play: George Saunders and the Post-Pastoral.

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