Bucolic metaphors

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: Bucolic Metaphors: History, Subjectivity, and Gender in the Early Modern Spanish Pastoral (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures) (): Rosilie Hernandez-Pecoraro: BooksCited by: 7.

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Recently he sat down with Josh Kilmer-Purcell to discuss their work/5(). Bucolic Metaphors Book Description: An in-depth examination of the cultural functions of the pastoral in Spain, this study of Montemayor's La Diana and Cervantes's pastoral texts moves away from studies that consider this literature as purely escapist and imitative.

Bucolic Metaphors: History, Subjectivity, and Gender in the Early Modern Spanish Pastoral; Rosilie Hernández-Pecoraro ; Book; Published by: The University of North Carolina Press; Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and LiteraturesCited by: 7.

An in-depth examination of the cultural functions of the pastoral in Spain, this study of Montemayor's La Diana and Cervantes's pastoral texts moves away from studies that consider this literature as purely escapist and imitative.

Rosilie Hernández-Pecoraro considerably expands the discussion of the importance of the pastoral genre to early modern Spanish studies and supplements the ways in.

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ISBN: OCLC Number: Description: pages ; 24 cm. Contents: 1. Pastoral metaphors: history as an absent cause in the Spanish pastoral novel idea vs. the real: the pastoral as symbolic act y Palacios: history narrativized in La Diana and La Galatea ical subtext and gendered subjects The information about The Bucolic Plague shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's online-magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high-profile books publishing in the coming weeks.

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[Rosilie Hernández-Pecoraro] -- "An in-depth examination of the cultural functions of the pastoral in Spain, this study of Montemayor's La Diana and Cervantes's pastoral texts moves away from studies that consider this literature.

Buy Bucolic Metaphors by Rosilie Hernandez-Pecoraro from Waterstones today. Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £ Pastoral literature Pastoral literature in general.

Pastoral is a mode of literature in which the author employs various techniques to place the complex life into a simple one. Paul Alpers distinguishes pastoral as a mode rather than a genre, and he bases this distinction on the recurring attitude of power; that is to say that pastoral literature holds a humble perspective toward nature.

bucolic: 1 adj relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle Synonyms: pastoral adj (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic “a pleasant bucolic scene” Synonyms: arcadian, pastoral rural living in or characteristic of farming or country life n a country person Synonyms: peasant, provincial.

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adj. Of or characteristic of the countryside or its people; rustic. See Synonyms at rural. Bucolic definition: Bucolic means relating to the countryside. | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples. “The Bucolic Plague has something different to offer—if we can do it anyone can, it tells us, provided we can laugh at ourselves.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review “Side-splitting.” — Wall Street Journal “A hilarious memoir.” — Whole Living “The witty new memoir.

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