Lilley Deborah, The New Pastoral in Contemporary British Writing
The book offers a useful outline of contemporary debates on pastoral in its relation to environmental crisis. At the same time as she delineates a new panorama of contemporary British writing, both fictional and non-fictional, Lilley aims to establish the pastoral as a critical tool to broach chang...
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| Publicado en: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ebc, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lenguaje: | Anglais |
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Études britanniques contemporaines
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumario: | The book offers a useful outline of contemporary debates on pastoral in its relation to environmental crisis. At the same time as she delineates a new panorama of contemporary British writing, both fictional and non-fictional, Lilley aims to establish the pastoral as a critical tool to broach changing perspectives on the environment in response to a ‘crisis of understanding’ (1). Lilley cites and condenses the reference works of American pastoral critics Leo Marx and Lawrence Buell and of Br... |
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