The Afterlives of Pastoral Conference

Event Details

Date:

Friday, 04 July 2014 - Saturday, 05 July 2014

Time:

9:00 am

Room:

Various Rooms

UQ Location:

Michie Building (St Lucia)

URL:

http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/pastoralconference2014

Event category(s):

Full Description:: This conference invites a dialogue on the afterlives of pastoral. It is inspired by the recent pastoral turn, by the questioning title of Alpers’s book, and by Patterson’s focus on the pastoral as literature in action. As Alpers reminds us, the pleasures of nymphs and shepherds and their herds are only ever the vehicle for a quite different, darker discourse: “the very notion of pastoral . . . represents a fantasy that is dissipated by the recognition of political and social realities” (24).