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Author | David M. Halperin |
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Language | English |
Subject | Theocritus |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Publication date | 1983 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
Pages | 289 |
ISBN | 978-0300025828 |
Before Pastoral: Theocritus and the Ancient Tradition of Bucolic Poetry is a 1983 book about Theocritus by the classicist David M. Halperin.
Reception
[edit]Before Pastoral was praised by the literary scholars Camille Paglia,[1] and Timothy Saunders, who writes that it "still offers the most finely argued case for upholding the distinction between the two categories of 'bucolic' and 'pastoral'."[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Paglia 1993. p. 171.
- ^ Saunders 2006. p. 3.
Bibliography
[edit]- Books
- Paglia, Camille (1993). Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-017209-2.
- Saunders, Timothy (2006). Skoie, Mathilde; Velázquez, Sonia Bjørnstad (eds.). Pastoral and the Humanities: Arcadia Re-inscribed. Bristol Phoenix Press. ISBN 978-1904675587.