“Cold pastoral”: Irony and the eclogue in the poetry of the Southern Fugitives
| dc.contributor.author | Kuhn, Joseph | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-22T08:14:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-08-22T08:14:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article attempts to analyze a shift in the ancient genre of pastoral in the poetry of the Southern modernists, Allen Tate and John Crowe Ransom, a shift that seeks to account for the historical penetration of nature and that is often aestheticized as the ironical counter-text of the “cold” pastoral. Drawing upon the models of pastoral found in Lewis P. Simpson and William Empson, the article argues that the essential trick of the old pastoral – the implication, as Empson calls it, of a beautiful relation between rich and poor – does not work within nineteenth-century Southern literature because the black resists being turned into a gardener in the garden. The article then examines Tate’s “The swimmers”, a poem that narrates Tate’s discovery as a young child of the aftermath of a lynching, as an expression of this unworkability in an idiom of what Tate called “pastoral terror”. | pl_PL |
| dc.identifier.citation | Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 44 (2008), pp. 539-548 | pl_PL |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0081-6272 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10593/19095 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pl_PL |
| dc.publisher | Adam Mickiewicz University | pl_PL |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | pl_PL |
| dc.title | “Cold pastoral”: Irony and the eclogue in the poetry of the Southern Fugitives | pl_PL |
| dc.type | Artykuł | pl_PL |