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In a time of global environmental crisis, pastoralism may seem beside the point. Yet pastoral ideals are still alive even though they often manifest themselves by ironic indirection. What can the pastoral tradition teach us about our ties to particular places?The contributors to this volume attempt to lay the groundwork for the ongoing concern with pastoral and with its critical revision.This volume brings together new essays that focus on painting, photography, poetry, essay, fiction and film, from the Renaissance to the present. They also take into account an astonishing variety of pastoral places, in Europe, Africa, and North America; country and city; suburbia and industrial zones.Poetics and Politics of Place in Pastoral is not only about reassessing the past, but also provides a sense of future developments as the pastoral reinvents itself for the 21st century.
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This text aims to increase the reader's understanding of the comic in the work of three major contemporary North American writers. It tries, on the one hand, to do justice to the specificity of the "oeuvre" of each of the writers it deals with and, on the other, to come to grips with the comic as a theoretical problem of the criticism of much contemporary fiction. The term "comic sense" implies both a quality of the fiction discusssed in this book and a particular way of reading this fiction. Pughe concentrates mainly on the texts of his three authors: Robert Coover's "A Night at the Movies" and "The Public Burning", Stanley Elkin's "The Dick Gibson Show", "The Franchiser" and "The Magic Kingdom" and Philip Roth's Zuckerman series. His readings are based on a reconsideration of traditional and modern theories of the comic and show that the literary significance of the texts discussed here is closely intertwined with the authors' - and their readers' - comic sense.