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Tradition and Convention : A Study of Periphrasis in English Pastoral Poetry From 1557-1715.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in English Literature SeriesPublisher: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 1965Copyright date: ©1965Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (292 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783111632445
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Tradition and ConventionLOC classification:
  • PR509.P3.M336 1965
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I. The Style, the Mode, and their Relationships -- A. What Periphrase Meant -- B. What Decorum Meant -- C. What Pastoral Meant -- II. Periphrasis with a Purpose -- A. Periphrase in Practice -- 1. Sir Philip Sidney: Periphrase in Arcadia -- 2. Edmund Spenser: Periphrase at the Service of Decorum in the Eclogues -- 3. Pastoral Language in Spenser's Imitators -- B. The Mechanics of Periphrase -- 1. Introductory and Transitional Periphrase -- 2. The Meaningful Use of Incidental Periphrase -- 3. Periphrases less Directly Connected with the Pastoral Mode -- C. Creation of the Artificial Scene through Conventions of Allegory and Periphrase -- D. The Relation of Periphrase to Pastoral Realism -- 1. The Relation of Periphrase and Pastoral Realism to Mixed Allegory -- 2. Sheep, and the Changing Effects of Conventional Allusion -- E. The Power of the Tradition and its Relation to Periphrase -- III. Periphrase without Purpose -- A. Pastoral Reality in a Metaphorical Field -- B. The Golden Pastoral -- C. Periphrastic Expression of Natural Sympathy -- D. Nymphs and Shepherds -- IV. Conclusion -- A. The Tradition -- B. Natural Sympathy, Divorced from Observation of Nature -- C. Realism through Comic Particularity -- D. Periphrase without System -- E. Convention -- Bibliography.
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I. The Style, the Mode, and their Relationships -- A. What Periphrase Meant -- B. What Decorum Meant -- C. What Pastoral Meant -- II. Periphrasis with a Purpose -- A. Periphrase in Practice -- 1. Sir Philip Sidney: Periphrase in Arcadia -- 2. Edmund Spenser: Periphrase at the Service of Decorum in the Eclogues -- 3. Pastoral Language in Spenser's Imitators -- B. The Mechanics of Periphrase -- 1. Introductory and Transitional Periphrase -- 2. The Meaningful Use of Incidental Periphrase -- 3. Periphrases less Directly Connected with the Pastoral Mode -- C. Creation of the Artificial Scene through Conventions of Allegory and Periphrase -- D. The Relation of Periphrase to Pastoral Realism -- 1. The Relation of Periphrase and Pastoral Realism to Mixed Allegory -- 2. Sheep, and the Changing Effects of Conventional Allusion -- E. The Power of the Tradition and its Relation to Periphrase -- III. Periphrase without Purpose -- A. Pastoral Reality in a Metaphorical Field -- B. The Golden Pastoral -- C. Periphrastic Expression of Natural Sympathy -- D. Nymphs and Shepherds -- IV. Conclusion -- A. The Tradition -- B. Natural Sympathy, Divorced from Observation of Nature -- C. Realism through Comic Particularity -- D. Periphrase without System -- E. Convention -- Bibliography.

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