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Abstract
The first part of this article refers to the initial attempt to relate Nature to Literature since the age of Hellenistic Alexandria in Egypt. Alexandria was a metropolis of its time with a quite lively character of urban life. Influenced by that character Theocritus was the first to lay the foundations of what is defined as pastoral poetry. In the course of this article and after the significance of contemporary Literature of Ecology is appraised, the results of a research - with regard to the excerpts of both prose and poetry cited in the primary school textbooks in Greece - will be presented. Finally, an educational method is proposed which, we premise, would attribute a more experiential character to Literature for Instruction purposes.
Highlights
IntroductionThe establishment of Pastoral Poetry by Theocritus is corroborated by Hans-Joachim Gehrke, member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, according to whom Theocritus, the pioneer of this new literary genre, along with the indubitable contribution of his successors presented Europe with “the artistic landscape of Arcadia” (Gehrke, 1991)
Pastoral poetry constitutes one of the first literary genres aiming at positioning the reader to close proximity to Nature
The first part of this article refers to the initial attempt to relate Nature to Literature since the age of Hellenistic Alexandria in Egypt
Summary
The establishment of Pastoral Poetry by Theocritus is corroborated by Hans-Joachim Gehrke, member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, according to whom Theocritus, the pioneer of this new literary genre, along with the indubitable contribution of his successors presented Europe with “the artistic landscape of Arcadia” (Gehrke, 1991). Within this climate of “confinement” of the person into the narrow, as far as natural life is concerned, psychical limits of a city it was utterly rational for even an alleged gateway of communication with what was missing, that is a reconnection with Nature, to be zealously sought for. The word systematic in this case signifies that even before Theocritus there are shreds of pastoral poetry to be found in Sicily and in Sparta (Bulloch, 1985)
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