Narcissus, Or the Pastoral of Solitude
Author: Jay Macpherson
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 1008
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Author: Jay Macpherson
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 1008
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Clayton Zimmerman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780847679621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: Jay Macpherson
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Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780300239737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kenneth J. Knoespel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-08-14
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1317377265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally 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.
Author: Clayton L. Zimmerman
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 111
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Julian Stern
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-11-18
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 1350162159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Apollonia Steele
Publisher: Calgary : University of Calgary Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 560
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Author: Eleanor Cook
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sue P. Starke
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 184384124X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.