Table of Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: Re-inscribing Pastoral in the Humanities - Mathilde Skoie and Sonia Bjørnstad Velázquez xi
• Part I: Pastoral Perspectives
• 1. ‘Using Green Words’ or ‘Abusing Bucolic Ground’ - Timothy Saunders
• 2. Post-Pastoral as a Tool for Ecocriticism - Terry Gifford
• Part II: Pastoral Responsibilities
• 3. ‘The Philoctetes Problem’ and the Poetics of Pastoral - Paul Alpers
• 4. Aesthetics and Ethics of Poikilia in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe - Michel Briand
• 5. ‘Still under that hawthorn!’: Pastoral in Tony Harrison’s Elegy in
• an Urban Graveyard - Juan Christian Pellicer
• Part III: Pastoral Practices: The Worlds in and out of Arcadia
• 6. Playing Shepherd: Allegory, Fiction, Reality of Pastoral Games - Françoise Lavocat
• 7. Care of the Self: Foucault, Guevara, and the Complexities of
• Courtly and Country Life - Luis F. Avilés
• Part IV: Pastoral Dialogues: Literal and Literary
• 8. Inscribing Dialogue in Pastoral Poetics and Criticism - Brian W. Breed
• 9. The Pipe That Can Imitate All Pipes: Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe
• and the Intertextual Polyphony of Pastoral Music - Thomas K. Hubbard
• 10. Agonistic Poetics in Virgil’s Third Eclogue - Andromache Karanika
• Part V: Pastoral Resoundings
• 11. Eco-logical or Echo-logical? On the Pastoral Mode in
• Malcolm Lowry’s ‘The Forest Path to the Spring’ - Henrik Otterberg
• 12. The Concert Champêtre and the Poetics of Dispossession - Jonathan Unglaub
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Mathilde Skoie is post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Classical and Romance Studies, University of Oslo; Sonia Bjørnstad-Velázquez is doctoral fellow in the Department of Spanish Literatures and Cultures at Princeton University.