Versions Of Pastoral Research Articles

The World as Garden: Versions of Pastoral in Emily Dickinson and Olvido García Valdés

Abstract: This paper contributes to the exploration of Emily Dickinson's influence on contemporary Spanish poetry through an examination of the trajectory of Olvido García Valdés, a poet born in 1950 who stands out for her very singular lyrical program, based on an extensive philosophical knowledge and on a close attention to nature, features that can be found in Dickinson's oeuvre and that reflect what could be labelled as a common pastoral impulse. This article explores the terms of this dialogue, focusing on both poets' approach to nature as the place where truth resides. The apparent prominence of the natural world in their works is a sign of not only its splendor and multiplicity but also its darkness and adversity. The extent to which nature encompasses violence and death offers a lesson in immanence that impedes any symbolic reading, thus giving place to figural closure and allegory. Plenitude is then projected into the past, into states of childhoods that, though nostalgically remembered in an elegiac tone familiar to the genre, are nonetheless as impossible to access as haunted and sealed houses. In a third and last move, the present is posited as a void, a space of emptiness where every voice can only be posthumous.

Some Versions of Pastoral and Related Writings

Some Versions of Pastoral and Related Writings

‘Mr Eliot somewhere says’: The ‘affectation of unaffectedness’ in Seven Types of Ambiguity

WILLIAM EMPSON TENDED to become assertively defensive when accused of making scholarly errors – particularly slips of transcription – in his critical writings, especially when readers accused him of misgiving a text to suit a point of interpretation. Ironically, faced with the charge that he was a sloppy copyist, he tried, now and then, to defend his readings on the grounds that the text he was ‘copying out’ was itself at fault – on the whole unavailingly. The several editions of Empson’s classic works that have appeared down the years, whether in new editions or various revised impressions – Seven Types of Ambiguity, Some Versions of Pastoral, The Structure of Complex Words, and Milton’s God – have either perpetuated original mistakes or introduced fresh errors of transcription (some major, many minor), and trifling misattributions. The trouble began even with the opening words of his first, most astonishing,...

The Ethics of Temporality - A Rejoinder Syllepsis Redux and the Rhetoric of Double Agency

Taking up leading threads from a response by Kent Puckett to the author’s previous essay in this journal on the syntactic figure of syllepsis in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend , this article rounds out the exchange by pursuing the continuing literary force of such split grammar — long after Dickens, or the new examples here from Austen and Poe — as it appears in contemporary writers as different as John le Carré and Toni Morrison. In answering Puckett’s call for an engagement with the mode of doubleness analyzed in William Empson’s Some Versions of Pastoral , it clarifies previous claims regarding an ethics of ambiguity in sylleptic grammar in relation to Giorgio Agamben’s work at the intersection of philosophy, linguistics, and poetics. In the process, this response extends the philosophical reverberations of this marked syntactic trope to include the Wittgensteinian line of thought in J. L. Austin and Stanley Cavell, not only in their comments on “ordinary language” but in the sylleptic turns of their own writing.

Seamus Heaney's Versions of Pastoral

Seamus Heaney's Versions of Pastoral

Poetry in Review: Some Versions of Pastoral

Poetry in Review: Some Versions of Pastoral

John Clare's Version of Pastoral

John Clare's Version of Pastoral

Play as Landscape: Another Version of Pastoral

Play as Landscape: Another Version of Pastoral

Pottering about in the Garden: Kenneth Grahame's Version of Pastoral in "The Wind in the Willows"

Pottering about in the Garden: Kenneth Grahame's Version of Pastoral in "The Wind in the Willows"

Two Versions of Pastoral, from A to Z

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The Fresh-Air Kids, or Some Contemporary Versions of Pastoral

The Fresh-Air Kids, or Some Contemporary Versions of Pastoral

Feminist Versions of Pastoral

Feminist Versions of Pastoral

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 pace of book-is to connect two main ideas that run through it: first, that the pastoral process consists of putting complex into (p. 23), and second, that pastoral has a unifying social force, is a means of bridging differences and reconciling social classes. The connection between these two ideas is real but loose. Putting complex into is, for Empson, essence of literary styles and conventions: these are inherently simple in relation to complexities of life, but are valuable precisely to extent that they stay in touch with those complexities and reconcile their contradictions. This is central idea in Empson's account of poetry, but attention to social usages and relations goes along with it because these are, to Empson, basis of all styles and conventions, including artistic ones.

Ideologies and Attitudes, Academic and Judicial

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A Version of Pastoral: Class and Society in Tristram Shandy

A Version of Pastoral: Class and Society in Tristram Shandy

Some Versions of Pastoral

Some Versions of Pastoral