Pastoral and the Poetics of Self-Contradiction - Theocritus to Marvell (Hardcover, New)

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 by examining the ways in which pastoral poets themselves interrogate the contradictory relations inherent in their genre. Haber explores problems of representation, self-representation, and imitation in classical and Renaissance pastoral, focusing on texts by Theocritus, Virgil, Sidney and Marvell. Her approach revises current understanding of pastoral as a genre, and raises wider questions about the place of literature in society and the difficulties involved in constituting literary traditions.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	1995
First published:	1994
Authors:	Judith Haber
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	236
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-44206-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
LSN:	0-521-44206-0
Barcode:	9780521442060

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