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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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Pastoral and the Poetics of Self-Contradiction
• Subtitle: Theocritus to Marvell
• Author: Judith Haber
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 236
• EAN: 9780521442060
• ISBN: 0521442060
• ID: 02031014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 405 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. January 1995

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