What Is Pastoral? by Paul Alpers
This work argues that pastoral is based upon a fundamental fiction - that the lives of shepherds or other socially humble figures represent the lives of human beings in general. It explores texts ranging from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Hardy and Frost.-
The Inspector Barlach Mysteries
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The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Make Poverty Personal
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Cultural Capital
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The Poet's Work
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Holding On to Reality
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Costa Rican Natural History
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Body by Darwin
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Bankers and Empire
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The Dancing Bees
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Bernini
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No Caption Needed
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Kamikaze Diaries
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Naked Airport
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The Peloponnesian War
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The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism
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Deserts Are Not Empty
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Subaltern Studies 2.0 Being against the Capitalocene
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The Ascent of Affect
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For the Love of It
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Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood
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Plant Evolution
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How to Do It
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Atlas of Wintering North American Birds
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Mythologies
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The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau
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Japan
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The Art of the Novel
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Women, the Family, and Peasant Revolution in China
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Ghost Image
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Becoming a Psychotherapist
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Real American Ethics
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Arendt and America
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Campus Life
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Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling
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Pushkin's Button
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780226015170 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226015173 |
| Title | What Is Pastoral? |
| Author | Paul Alpers |
| Series | Emersion: Emergent Village Resources For Communities Of Faith |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University Of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 1997-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 444 |
| Prizes | Winner of American Comparative Literature Association's Harry Levin Prize 1997 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |