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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Georgic"”.
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Back to the Land Again: Environmentalism in English georgic life writing 1940-2023
… to the Land Again: Environmentalism in English georgic life writing 1940-2023. The creative work is life writing based on my experience of living and working on a market garden, intertwined with nature writing, history, biography and other types of creative non-fiction. The critical essay …
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The family contracts
… first three sections. It is entitled "suburban georgic" and follows the georgic tradition of recording the season changes, attempts at farming, and instruction on living in a particular location within a particular climate.
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Uncommon work: Utopia, labor, and environment in late twentieth-century American fiction
… among others, revived an American tradition of georgic writings—that is, texts attending to issues of political economy through a focus on relations between human labor and the physical environment—and directed it toward global projects of economic and environmental justice. The political …
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John Graves and the Pastoral Tradition
… journey and return to the more domestic world of georgic, from the mode of leisure and contemplation to the demands and rewards of hard work and ownership. As such they represent not only progression or maturation in the arc of the narrator's life but a desire to reconcile ideological poles first …
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Uneven Ground: Figurations Of The Rural Modern In The U.S. South, 1890-1945
… literature through the presence of a veiled georgic mode, a tendency I explore in the writing of W. E. B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Frances F. W. Harper. In the second section, I propose two categories of agrarians: "leisure agrarians" such as the Twelve …
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When the Soil Was Everything: Unearthing the Roots of American Environmental Writing
… a few) has recovered the literary mode of the georgic and its agrarian foundation as speaking most presciently to the ecological and cultural challenges of our own era, both in academia and in the "real" world. The "new agrarianism" that now infuses America's popular culture has brought organic …
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Parts and Wholes in Long Non-narrative Poems of the Eighteenth Century
… as in extensive classical genres like epic and georgic, these works invest structure with the task of transmitting an articulated experience or body of knowledge to the reader. As such, their parts are arranged coherently, if complexly, within the whole.
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Seasons and Sovereigns: Succession in the Greenworld, 1579 - 1621
… along the two-dimensional axis of pastoral and georgic, leaving critics unable to develop an overarching theory of how or why early modern subjects charted environmental stability over time. <bold>Seasons and Sovereigns</bold> addresses this occlusion by studying the course of nature as it …
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Notes from the Ground: Science and Agricultural Improvement in the Early American Republic
… the entire work is an exposition of the georgic ethic (as distinct from the pastoral ethic), which emphasizes the labor-based means through which most rural peoples understood their land and ties the moral plea for cultural improvement to the material pursuit of agricultural progress. The …
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LE ETIMOLOGIE GRECHE NEI COMMENTARII DI SERVIO A VIRGILIO
… his commentary on Virgil's Aeneid, Eclogues, and Georgics. This thesis provides the first ever complete lexicon of the Greek etymological notations (i.e. implying Greek language in all its forms) that Servius included in his commentary on Virgil. The notes have been categorised into six groups …