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Book Narcissus  Or the Pastoral of Solitude

Download or read book Narcissus Or the Pastoral of Solitude written by Jay Macpherson and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pastoral Narcissus

Download or read book The Pastoral Narcissus written by Clayton Zimmerman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1994 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Pastoral Narcissus, the only book-length treatment of the First Idyll of Theocritus, Clayton Zimmerman returns to a more philological consideration of the major problems in the text, keeping in sight the best recent scholarship. Zimmerman demonstrates that Theocritus is clearly evoking the Narcissus myth, and in doing so provides readers with the first complete study of that myth since 1860. He then uses his reading of Daphnis to inform other bucolic poems in the corpus, and to expose the connections between Daphnis and a Theocritean ideal of poetic composition.

Book The Spirit of Solitude

Download or read book The Spirit of Solitude written by Jay Macpherson and published by . This book was released on with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canadian Literature

Download or read book Canadian Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Narcissus and the Invention of Personal History

Download or read book Narcissus and the Invention of Personal History written by Kenneth J. Knoespel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1985. This investigation of Ovid’s fable takes a different tack to previous studies of the love lyric or the themes but looks at the creation of narrative strategies to explain Narcissus’ experience. The story has always been understood as literally impossible but invites readers to ask what is meant by the puzzling tale of deception and death. The limits placed on the fable by the commentaries of the medieval period allow us to appreciate the narrative expansion of the fable in twelfth and thirteenth-century poetry. Themes in this book are the way the fable is used as a means for knowledge of physical nature and the development of science; the importance of language in the fable and in its settings when rewritten in other texts, and psychoanalytic aspects of Echo and Narcissus. The fable has the capacity to represent mental life and psychological crisis within other narratives and this is also an important discussion point, based around the medieval text Roman de la Rose. The book also considers the wider Metamorphoses and Ovid’s importance for literature.

Book The pastoral Narcissus

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clayton L. Zimmerman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 111 pages

Download or read book The pastoral Narcissus written by Clayton L. Zimmerman and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude  Silence and Loneliness

Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude Silence and Loneliness written by Julian Stern and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude, Silence and Loneliness is the first major account integrating research on solitude, silence and loneliness from across academic disciplines and across the lifespan. The editors explore how being alone – in its different forms, positive and negative, as solitude, silence and loneliness – is learned and developed, and how it is experienced in childhood and youth, adulthood and old age. Philosophical, psychological, historical, cultural and religious issues are addressed by distinguished scholars from Europe, North and Latin America, and Asia.

Book Theses on English Canadian Literature

Download or read book Theses on English Canadian Literature written by Apollonia Steele and published by Calgary : University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Littérature].

Book The Heroines of English Pastoral Romance

Download or read book The Heroines of English Pastoral Romance written by Sue P. Starke and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The figure of the woman as hero in pastoral romance is shown to grow in importance and complexity in this important new study. The genre of pastoral romance flourished dramatically in Renaissance England between 1590 and 1650. One of its key elements is that it is the daughter, not the son, of the gentle family who increasingly becomes the subject of theromance's attempt to define and illustrate heroism. The pastoral heroine's task is paradoxical: to break out of her pastoral paradise in order to ensure its reconstitution. She is the princess, the shepherdess, the Lady, or the virtuous daughter who becomes a repository of honor and virtue in a changing society where traditional chivalric definitions of honor hold decreasing purchase. This groundbreaking book examines the typical challenges facedby the pastoral romance heroine as she matures within the pastoral locus amoenus: the foundling dilemma; the loop-shaped quest: the rhetorical battle; the chastity threat; the reconciliation of beauty to virtue; and familial reunification. It illustrates how the allegorical, symbolic, and psychological characterizations of pastoral heroines in the works of Sidney, Spenser, Wroth, Fletcher, Milton, and Marvell anticipate developments in the representation of female subjectivities normally associated with the novel. SUE P. STARKE is Associate Professor of English at Monmouth University, New Jersey.

Book Shakespeare and the Solitary Man

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Solitary Man written by Janette Dillon and published by Springer. This book was released on 1981-06-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Browning s Lyrics

Download or read book Browning s Lyrics written by Eleanor Cook and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Potency of Pastoral in the Hispanic Baroque

Download or read book The Potency of Pastoral in the Hispanic Baroque written by Anne Holloway and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A careful re-evaluation of pastoral poetics in the early modern Hispanic literature of Spain and Latin America. In her analysis of the verse of representative poets of the Hispanic Baroque, Holloway demonstrates how these writers occupy an Arcadia which is de-familiarised and yet remains connected to the classical origins of the mode. Herstudy includes recent manuscript discoveries from the Spanish Baroque (Fábula de Alfeo y Aretusa, now attributed to the Gongorist poet Pedro Soto de Rojas), the poetry of Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza and Francisco de Quevedo. The study considers pastoral as a global cultural phenomenon of the Early Modern period, its reverberations reaching as far as Viceregal Peru. The tradition of the pastoral as a site for the discussion of 'great matters in theforest' has deep roots, and re-emerges to praise the urban hearts of empire. Furthermore, it proves to be a site of spiritual encounter--a poetic space that frames the staging of indigenous conversion in the poetry of Diego Mexiaand Fernando de Valverde. Within the intricacies of this literary construct, surface artistry sustains an effect of artless innocence that is vibrantly contested across the secular, sacred, parodic and colonial text. Anne Holloway is a Lecturer in Spanish, Queen's University Belfast.

Book Canadian Poetry

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jack David
  • Publisher : Co-publication of General Pub. and EGW Press
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Canadian Poetry written by Jack David and published by Co-publication of General Pub. and EGW Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dissertations in English and American Literature

Download or read book Dissertations in English and American Literature written by Laurence F. McNamee and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century

Download or read book Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century written by Timothy Hampton and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing the relationship between the emergence of modern French literary culture and the ideological debates that marked Renaissance France, Timothy Hampton explores the role of literary form in shaping national identity.The foundational texts of modern French literature were produced during a period of unprecedented struggle over the meaning of community. In the face of religious heresy, political threats from abroad, and new forms of cultural diversity, Renaissance French culture confronted, in new and urgent ways, the question of what it means to be "French." Hampton shows how conflicts between different concepts of community were mediated symbolically through the genesis of new literary forms. Hampton's analysis of works by Rabelais, Montaigne, Du Bellay, and Marguerite de Navarre, as well as writings by lesser-known poets, pamphleteers, and political philosophers, shows that the vulnerability of France and the instability of French identity were pervasive cultural themes during this period.Contemporary scholarship on nation-building in early modern Europe has emphasized the importance of centralized power and the rise of absolute monarchy. Hampton offers a counterargument, demonstrating that both community and national identity in Renaissance France were defined through a dialogic relationship to that which was not French—to the foreigner, the stranger, the intruder from abroad. He provides both a methodological challenge to traditional cultural history and a new consideration of the role of literature in the definition of the nation.

Book Canadian Writers and Their Works

Download or read book Canadian Writers and Their Works written by Robert Lecker and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: