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Archeologies of invective

Print Book, English, ©2007
Peter Lang, New York, ©2007
xi, 217 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
9781433101649, 1433101645
122291227
Et in Arcadia duo: the role of invective in Pastoral's "Small world"
From Archilochus to Mencken: elegy and iambus, reason and ire
"His language is enough to condemn him": life and death in Arcadia
Oh lucky man: Goethe and the recalibration of Arcadian ego
Reimagining indignation as a critical and poetic mode
More than a pair of Arcadians: derision from the "wintry regions of spleen" to Baudelaire and Beyond
The avant-garde planet: invective from Villon to Verlaine and beyond
Invective between Inferno and labyrinth
Animus reanimated in neopastoral
Nowadays: remarks on pastoral endings and the resensing of history
Parting shots