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"Pastoral Process" draws a basic distinction between two aspects of the pastoral ideal: the Arcadian pastoral, which locates the unspoiled paradise in space, apart from the complexities of city and court, and finds it accessible for limited periods of recuperation and reorientation; and the Golden Age mode, which locates the ideal pastoral life in time gone by, always already lost as soon as it is apprehended as paradise. The author s central aim is an archaeology of the nostalgia-based pastoral of the vanished Golden Age. On the surface level, her close readings of certain Renaissance poems and sequences Spenser s Shepheardes Calender, Marvell s Mower poems, and Milton s Lycidas clarify pastoral process: the dislocating transition from innocence to experience, from secure centeredness in a comfortable, self-mirroring world to a new condition of division, displacement, and alienation. The advent of individuation and sexual desire, and the internalization of undirectional time and universal death, transform the pastoral paradise into a wasteland or leave the newly self-conscious protagonist outside his former idyll, looking in.

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

• Full title: Pastoral Process
• Subtitle: Spenser, Marvell, Milton
• Author: Susan Snyder
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780804731065
• ISBN: 0804731063
• ID: 04716694
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 476 g
• Dimensions: 146 × 221 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. April 1998

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