Journal article
Passage to Arcadia
Postmedieval a journal of medieval cultural studies, Vol.1(1-2), pp.132-141
04/23/2010
DOI: 10.1057/pmed.2010.12
Abstract
In the poetry of Theocritus and Virgil, the pastoral landscape of Arcadia was developed as an ideal region of benevolent nature, shepherds and hunters, and the ardent springs of poetry. In Virgilian nature, close to the sources of art and scholarship, meditation could be practiced, and awareness of ultimate reality achieved. During the Middle Ages, a severe kind of Arcadia was brought to life in monasteries and hermitages. In the Renaissance, Arcadia was further developed as a realm of humanistic study, combining solitude in nature with book learning. Arcadia was later reimagined as a distant classical landscape of the arts and humanities. In late modernity, the humanities are challenged by the norms of totalizing reason, and a sense of historical closure. Drawing upon an anonymous journal, the author seeks passage to Arcadia.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Passage to Arcadia
- Creators
- Michael Edward Moore - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Postmedieval a journal of medieval cultural studies, Vol.1(1-2), pp.132-141
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- DOI
- 10.1057/pmed.2010.12
- ISSN
- 2040-5960
- eISSN
- 2040-5979
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/23/2010
- Academic Unit
- History; International Programs; Law Faculty
- Record Identifier
- 9984288739302771
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