Paul Alpers
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 289950 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Paul Alpers |
| PRENOMES | Paul |
| SOBRENOME | Alpers |
| ASSINATURA | ALPERS P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1958 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Virgil’s Eclogue V
Apostrophe and the Rhetoric of Renaissance Lyric
Romantic models dominate our conception of lyric poetry. This essay questions the pertinence of these models to the Renaissance lyric by reading that poetry in the light of Jonathan Culler's classic account of the romantic lyric in his Pursuit of Signs (1981). Culler famously argues that the definitive trope of lyric is apostrophe, in which first-person speakers address pointedly fictive personifications, such as a sick rose or the west wind, in …
Renaissance Lyrics and Their Situations
This essay proposes a way of incorporating contextual perspectives, such as have dominated interpretation in the last quarter century, into the formal analysis of lyric poems of the English Renaissance. Following Kenneth Burke's formulation, that poems adopt "various strategies for the encompassing of situations," the discussion centers on George Gascoigne's "Gascoigne's Woodmanship" and Andrew Marvell's "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return fr…
"The Philoctetes Problem" and the Poetics of Pastoral
The Philoctetes problem," so named by Susan Stewart, concerns the limits of human expression: how can individual suffering be expressed in isolation from human listeners? This essay argues that the conventions and usages of pastoral poetry engage this problem and that because of the self-consciousness of pastoral, its poetics are pertinent to the expression of isolated suffering in other modes of poetry
The Cambridge Companion to Spenser
The Cambridge Companion to Spenser provides an introduction to Spenser that is at once accessible and rigorous. Fourteen specially commissioned essays by leading scholars bring together the best recent writing on the work of the most important non-dramatic Renaissance poet. The contributions provide all the essential information required to appreciate and understand Spenser's rewarding and challenging work. The Companion guides the reader through…
What Is Pastoral
What Is Pastoral
What Is Pastoral
Spenser's Late Pastorals
Spenser, as everyone interested in him knows, began his career as writer of pastoral. But he also returned to pastoral at the end of his career, and we have not made this fact sufficiently intelligible. This essay begins by interpreting the pastoral cantos of Book VI as pastorals, and then draws out the implications of this analysis for The Faerie Queene as epic narration and for Spenser's poetry in the 1590s. In particular, I will argue that unl…
Pastoral and the Domain of Lyric in Spenser's Shepheardes Calender
THIS ESSAY SEEKS TO EXPLAIN, more precisely than is usual and in terms appropriate to literary history, the importance to Elizabethan poetry of Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender. Published in 1579, a decade before The Faerie Queene, this book of pastorals established Spenser as the leading poet of his generation. Its editor, one E.K. (never identified but clearly someone associated with Spenser), heralded the work as a major literary even…
"Responses to "The Politics of Interpretation
Convening and Convention in Pastoral Poetry
Convention and conventional are words that everyone uses with confidence, and it is hard to imagine any uncertainty about what they mean when one is speaking of pastoral poetry-a kind notoriously conscious of rules, precedents, and usages. But the terms are more elusive than their frequent and confident deployment suggests. This essay attempts to define what we mean, or should mean, by calling a pastoral poem conventional. My starting point is th…
Lycidas and Modern Criticism
Most modern critics base their theories on the proposition that a poem is an object in itself. And all critics endorse [Matthew Arnold's] statement . . . that the function of criticism is see the object as in itself it really is. The undertaking is surely valid, and laudable; the results, however, are disconcerting. For. . . the object proves to be highly unstable, and disintegrates. In the pages of the critics we increasingly find, under a singl…
What Is Pastoral
The Singer of the Eclogues
Placing Sorrow
Ellen Zetzel Lambert. Placing Sorrow: A Study of the Pastoral Elegy Conventionfrom Theocritus to Milton. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1976. xxxiv+238 pp. $13.95. - Volume 32 Issue 2
Empson on Pastoral
Some Versions of Pastoral is acknowledged to be most brilliant study of its subject, but it has not proved to be an easy book to use. Readers naturally seek Empson's definition of pastoral and are frustrated when they find what seems to be a collection of brilliant fragments. If whole book is as great as its best parts, one should be able to say what Empson means by pastoral. The main difficulty in doing this-even when one is used to manner and p…
Narration in the Faerie Queene
Contemporary Thought on Edmund Spenser, with a Bibliography of Criticism of The Faerie Queene, 1900-1970
Richard C. Frushell and Bernard J. Vondersmith, eds. Contemporary Thought on Edmund Spenser, with a Bibliography of Criticism of The Faerie Queene, 1900-1970. Carbondale-Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press; London-Amsterdam: Feffer & Simons, 1975. 240 pp. $15. - Volume 29 Issue 2
The Eclogue Tradition and the Nature of Pastoral
Ut Pictura Noesis? Criticism in Literary Studies and Art History
ART HISTORY is one of the most prestigious fields in the humanities. On the two fronts on which it operates most powerfullythe study of style and the study of iconography-it has had great influence on other humanistic disciplines. We owe to Wilfflin our ideas about period style and to Male, Panofsky, Wind and others our knowledge of iconography, as both a cultural fact and a method of interpretation. Ever since Burckhardt, our consciousness and u…
Pope's to Bathurst and the Mandevillian State
idea of the entire Essay [To Bathurst] is borrowed from Mandeville, said W. J. Courthope, referring to Pope's apparent use of the paradox expressed in the sub-title of The Fable of the Bees- private vices, public benefits. Courthope regretted this influence, for Mandeville was a low-spirited materialist, while Pope himself was not deficient in generous instincts and noble ideas.1 Courthope's mistake-leaving aside the name-calling-was to assume th…
What Is Pastoral
The Singer of the Eclogues
Apostrophe and the Rhetoric of Renaissance Lyric
Romantic models dominate our conception of lyric poetry. This essay questions the pertinence of these models to the Renaissance lyric by reading that poetry in the light of Jonathan Culler's classic account of the romantic lyric in his Pursuit of Signs (1981). Culler famously argues that the definitive trope of lyric is apostrophe, in which first-person speakers address pointedly fictive personifications, such as a sick rose or the west wind, in …
Renaissance Lyrics and Their Situations
This essay proposes a way of incorporating contextual perspectives, such as have dominated interpretation in the last quarter century, into the formal analysis of lyric poems of the English Renaissance. Following Kenneth Burke's formulation, that poems adopt "various strategies for the encompassing of situations," the discussion centers on George Gascoigne's "Gascoigne's Woodmanship" and Andrew Marvell's "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return fr…
"The Philoctetes Problem" and the Poetics of Pastoral
The Philoctetes problem," so named by Susan Stewart, concerns the limits of human expression: how can individual suffering be expressed in isolation from human listeners? This essay argues that the conventions and usages of pastoral poetry engage this problem and that because of the self-consciousness of pastoral, its poetics are pertinent to the expression of isolated suffering in other modes of poetry
Pope's to Bathurst and the Mandevillian State
idea of the entire Essay [To Bathurst] is borrowed from Mandeville, said W. J. Courthope, referring to Pope's apparent use of the paradox expressed in the sub-title of The Fable of the Bees- private vices, public benefits. Courthope regretted this influence, for Mandeville was a low-spirited materialist, while Pope himself was not deficient in generous instincts and noble ideas.1 Courthope's mistake-leaving aside the name-calling-was to assume th…
The Eclogue Tradition and the Nature of Pastoral
Ut Pictura Noesis? Criticism in Literary Studies and Art History
ART HISTORY is one of the most prestigious fields in the humanities. On the two fronts on which it operates most powerfullythe study of style and the study of iconography-it has had great influence on other humanistic disciplines. We owe to Wilfflin our ideas about period style and to Male, Panofsky, Wind and others our knowledge of iconography, as both a cultural fact and a method of interpretation. Ever since Burckhardt, our consciousness and u…
Contemporary Thought on Edmund Spenser, with a Bibliography of Criticism of The Faerie Queene, 1900-1970
Richard C. Frushell and Bernard J. Vondersmith, eds. Contemporary Thought on Edmund Spenser, with a Bibliography of Criticism of The Faerie Queene, 1900-1970. Carbondale-Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press; London-Amsterdam: Feffer & Simons, 1975. 240 pp. $15. - Volume 29 Issue 2
Narration in the Faerie Queene
Empson on Pastoral
Some Versions of Pastoral is acknowledged to be most brilliant study of its subject, but it has not proved to be an easy book to use. Readers naturally seek Empson's definition of pastoral and are frustrated when they find what seems to be a collection of brilliant fragments. If whole book is as great as its best parts, one should be able to say what Empson means by pastoral. The main difficulty in doing this-even when one is used to manner and p…
Placing Sorrow
Ellen Zetzel Lambert. Placing Sorrow: A Study of the Pastoral Elegy Conventionfrom Theocritus to Milton. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1976. xxxiv+238 pp. $13.95. - Volume 32 Issue 2
The Singer of the Eclogues
Lycidas and Modern Criticism
Most modern critics base their theories on the proposition that a poem is an object in itself. And all critics endorse [Matthew Arnold's] statement . . . that the function of criticism is see the object as in itself it really is. The undertaking is surely valid, and laudable; the results, however, are disconcerting. For. . . the object proves to be highly unstable, and disintegrates. In the pages of the critics we increasingly find, under a singl…
What Is Pastoral
"Responses to "The Politics of Interpretation
Convening and Convention in Pastoral Poetry
Convention and conventional are words that everyone uses with confidence, and it is hard to imagine any uncertainty about what they mean when one is speaking of pastoral poetry-a kind notoriously conscious of rules, precedents, and usages. But the terms are more elusive than their frequent and confident deployment suggests. This essay attempts to define what we mean, or should mean, by calling a pastoral poem conventional. My starting point is th…
Pastoral and the Domain of Lyric in Spenser's Shepheardes Calender
THIS ESSAY SEEKS TO EXPLAIN, more precisely than is usual and in terms appropriate to literary history, the importance to Elizabethan poetry of Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender. Published in 1579, a decade before The Faerie Queene, this book of pastorals established Spenser as the leading poet of his generation. Its editor, one E.K. (never identified but clearly someone associated with Spenser), heralded the work as a major literary even…
Spenser's Late Pastorals
Spenser, as everyone interested in him knows, began his career as writer of pastoral. But he also returned to pastoral at the end of his career, and we have not made this fact sufficiently intelligible. This essay begins by interpreting the pastoral cantos of Book VI as pastorals, and then draws out the implications of this analysis for The Faerie Queene as epic narration and for Spenser's poetry in the 1590s. In particular, I will argue that unl…
What Is Pastoral
What Is Pastoral
What Is Pastoral
The Cambridge Companion to Spenser
The Cambridge Companion to Spenser provides an introduction to Spenser that is at once accessible and rigorous. Fourteen specially commissioned essays by leading scholars bring together the best recent writing on the work of the most important non-dramatic Renaissance poet. The contributions provide all the essential information required to appreciate and understand Spenser's rewarding and challenging work. The Companion guides the reader through…
"The Philoctetes Problem" and the Poetics of Pastoral
The Philoctetes problem," so named by Susan Stewart, concerns the limits of human expression: how can individual suffering be expressed in isolation from human listeners? This essay argues that the conventions and usages of pastoral poetry engage this problem and that because of the self-consciousness of pastoral, its poetics are pertinent to the expression of isolated suffering in other modes of poetry
Renaissance Lyrics and Their Situations
This essay proposes a way of incorporating contextual perspectives, such as have dominated interpretation in the last quarter century, into the formal analysis of lyric poems of the English Renaissance. Following Kenneth Burke's formulation, that poems adopt "various strategies for the encompassing of situations," the discussion centers on George Gascoigne's "Gascoigne's Woodmanship" and Andrew Marvell's "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return fr…
Virgil’s Eclogue V
Apostrophe and the Rhetoric of Renaissance Lyric
Romantic models dominate our conception of lyric poetry. This essay questions the pertinence of these models to the Renaissance lyric by reading that poetry in the light of Jonathan Culler's classic account of the romantic lyric in his Pursuit of Signs (1981). Culler famously argues that the definitive trope of lyric is apostrophe, in which first-person speakers address pointedly fictive personifications, such as a sick rose or the west wind, in …
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