Tradition and convention
Subtitle: a study of periphrasis in English pastoral poetry from 1557-1715
Series: Studies in English Literature -- v. 5; Studies in English Literature
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 1965
Place of publication: Berlin/Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9783111632445; 9783111252278
Subjects: English Pastoral poetry; Early modern; History and criticism; Periphrasis; English poetry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 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.; title: 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.; title: C. Realism through Comic ParticularityD. Periphrase without System; E. Convention; Bibliography.