Pastoral Drama and Healing in Early Modern Italy
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0754665577
ISBN-13
9780754665571
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 28th, 2009
Print length
246 Pages
Weight
598 grams
Dimensions
24.10 x 16.40 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800Literary studies: plays & playwrights
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A study that confronts the well rehearsed analogy of the pastoral poet as healer. It raises such questions as: How does the pastoral heal? How exactly do the inner workings of the text cater to the healing? What are the major problems that pastoral poetry as mimesis must overcome to make its healing morally legitimate?
Pastoral Drama and Healing in Early Modern Italy represents the first full-length study to confront seriously the well-rehearsed analogy of the pastoral poet as healer. Usually associated with the edifying function of the Renaissance pastoral, this analogy, if engaged more profoundly, raises a number of questions that remain unanswered to this day. How does the pastoral heal? How exactly do the inner workings of the text cater to the healing? What socio-cultural conventions make the healing possible? What are the major problems that pastoral poetry as mimesis must overcome to make its healing morally legitimate? In the wake of Derrida''s seminal work on the Platonic pharmakon, which has in turn led recent criticism to formulate a much more concrete understanding of the theater/drug analogy, the stringent approach to the therapeutic function of the Renaissance pastoral offered in this work provides a valuable critical tool to unpack the complexity contained within a little-understood cliché.
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