An edition of Tradition and convention (1965)

Tradition and convention

a study of periphrasis in English pastoral poetry from 1557-1715

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An edition of Tradition and convention (1965)

Tradition and convention

a study of periphrasis in English pastoral poetry from 1557-1715

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De Gruyter
Language
English
Pages
292

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Table of Contents

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 PeriphraseD. 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 ParticularityD. Periphrase without System; E. Convention; Bibliography.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Berlin/Boston
Series
Studies in English Literature -- v. 5, Studies in English Literature

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
820.93217340904
Library of Congress
PR509.P3 .M336 1965

The Physical Object

Pagination
1 online resource (292 pages)
Number of pages
292

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL30093037M
Internet Archive
traditionconvent0000mcco
ISBN 10
311163244X
ISBN 13
9783111632445, 9783111252278
OCLC/WorldCat
973182199

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