Une pure merveille !
Un roman d'une grande beauté, drôle, fin, extrêmement lumineux sur des sujets difficiles : la perte de
l'être aimé, la dureté de la vie et la tristesse qu'on barricade parfois... Elise franco-japonaise,
orpheline de sa maman veut poser LA question à son père et elle en trouvera le courage au fil des pages,
grâce au retour de sa grand-mère du japon, de sa rencontre avec son extravagante amie Stella..
Ensemble il ne diront plus Sayonara mais Mata Ne !
Terry Gifford offers a clear and invaluable introduction to 'pastoral', clarifying its uses and tracing the history of the genre from its classical origins...
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Terry Gifford offers a clear and invaluable introduction to 'pastoral', clarifying its uses and tracing the history of the genre from its classical origins through to contemporary writing. This guidebook provides:
• clarification of the different definitions of pastoral
• introduction to the major arguments about the form
• identification and close reading of key texts - including classical poetry, Elizabethan drama, the pastoral poetry of Pope, Wordsworth and Clare, and contemporary poetry, fiction and travel writing
• an examination of the anti-pastoral tradition
• a discussion of 'post-pastoral' texts
Terry Gifford is Research Co-ordinator at the School of English, Bretton Hall College of Leeds University. He is author of Green Voices: Understanding Contemporary Nature Poetry.