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1. Again, this is an introductory text, with some interesting keywords (and subtopics) about the pastoral and related terms. Can you isolate and try to define those that you deem central to the discussion?
2. On p. 213 (anthology - or p. 6 of the text), Marx argues that marketing research finda that Americans are most likely to get consumables if associated with a farm setting (as the beer ad below). But, from your experience (or from research done on American advertisement) do you think this is still so? What may account for the continuity or for the difference?
-Sentimental pastoralism is an expression of feeling, it is connected to the “flight from the city”. It represents the idea of nature that opposes the hectic life in the city.
ReplyDelete-The Machine- an interruption, something that disrupts the ideality of the pastoral (train whistle, a steamboat, another human, etc.)
-Arcadia- symbolic landscape, described by the Roman authors. A blend of myth and reality. It describes a place between wild nature and civilized city (Rome), a place that is “semi-primitive”.
-Counterforce- a literary style that talks about the life in industrialized cities; juxtaposition to pastoral writing
The agrarian myth (p. 7) refers to farmers whose ultimate goal for working was to produce abundance rather than to obtain financial gain.
ReplyDeleteAnti-pastoral (p. 26) are those works of literature that renounce pastoral themes and conventions.
Pastoral ideal (p. 21) is the ultimate Utopia and oasis. It is the perfect scenario imaginable: a sense of simplicity and serenity, which is attributed to pastoral areas.