{"product_id":"mutating-idylls-9781433161681","title":"Mutating Idylls","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMutating Idylls \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the surprising presence of the antique literary topos of the idyllic landscape, the \u003ci\u003elocus amoenus\u003c\/i\u003e, in European literature from the latter half of the nineteenth century. The book sets out to identify how this topos, which generally has no place in politically and socially realistic and naturalist literature, actually does have a role to play. Chapters on central nineteenth-century authors such as Flaubert, Zola, Fontane, Verga, Hamsun, Austen, Eliot, Wilde, Jiménez, Cernuda, and Galdós demonstrate both the presence and the multiple refunctionalizations of the \u003ci\u003elocus amoenus\u003c\/i\u003e. The theoretical aim of \u003ci\u003eMutating Idylls \u003c\/i\u003eis to rehabilitate the notion of literary topos. This feature is present in the introduction as a possibility in literary studies today. The chapters all argue in the direction of a notion of topos, which is more flexible than the one Curtius defines along the lines of formula or cliché. In this way, the book intervenes in\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword – Carsten Meiner and Peter Borum: Introduction: The History and Theory of the \u003ci\u003eLocus Amoenus\u003c\/i\u003e – Maria Damkjær: Landscape on Pause: Strong Feelings and the \u003ci\u003eLocus Amoenus \u003c\/i\u003ein Nineteenth-Century British Literature – Frode Lerum Boasson: Pleasure Is Not Fun: The \u003ci\u003eLocus Amoenus \u003c\/i\u003ein Knut Hamsun – Katrine Helene Andersen: The \u003ci\u003eLocus Amoenus \u003c\/i\u003ein Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature: From Meadows to Gardens: \u003ci\u003eDoña Perfecta \u003c\/i\u003eas a Micro-representation of a Topological Development – Pia Schwarz Lausten: In the Shade of the Chestnut Trees: The \u003ci\u003eLocus Amoenus \u003c\/i\u003ein Giovanni Verga’s Writing – Michael Høxbro Andersen: Defective Pleasant Places: The \u003ci\u003eLocus Amoenus \u003c\/i\u003ein Gustave Flaubert’s \u003ci\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/i\u003e – Charles Lock: Derelictions of Contentment: The \u003ci\u003eLocus Amoenus \u003c\/i\u003ein Nineteenth-Century Landscape Painting – Birthe Hoffmann: The \u003ci\u003eLocus Amoenus \u003c\/i\u003eas a (Hetero-)utopia of Human Existence in Theodor Fontane’s Novel \u003ci\u003eOn Tangled Paths\u003c\/i\u003e – Julio Jensen: \u003ci\u003eLocus Amoenus \u003c\/i\u003eand the Modern Spirit. A Topos of Melancholy in Three Spanish-Language Authors: Juan Ramón Jiménez, Luis Cernuda, and Julio Cortázar – Carsten Meiner: Naturalizing Deviant Pleasure: \u003ci\u003eLoci Amoeni \u003c\/i\u003ein Zola – Contributors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039642648919,"sku":"9781433161681","price":69.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433161681.jpg?v=1750944358","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mutating-idylls-9781433161681","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}