When Shepherds Weep

When Shepherds Weep
Author: Glenn Daman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Church group work
ISBN: 9781941337431

The purpose of this book is to help pastors regain their spiritual perspective in the trials of ministry by understanding how suffering is used by God to develop the pastor and the church. It comes along wounded pastors to offer comfort and encouragement.

New Alliances in Joyce Studies

New Alliances in Joyce Studies
Author: Bonnie Kime Scott
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1988
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780874133288

Essays ... initially presented in less formal versions as independent papers ... at the James Joyce Conference, held in Philadelphia in June 1985--Introd.

What Is Pastoral?

What Is Pastoral?
Author: Paul Alpers
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 1997-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0226015173

One of the enduring traditions of Western literary history, pastoral is often mischaracterized as a catchall for literature about rural themes and nature in general. In What Is Pastoral?, distinguished literary historian Paul Alpers argues that pastoral is based upon a fundamental fiction—that the lives of shepherds or other socially humble figures represent the lives of human beings in general. Ranging from Virgil's Eclogues to Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs, from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Hardy and Frost, this work brings the story of the pastoral tradition, previously limited to classical and Renaissance literature, into the twentieth century. Pastoral reemerges in this account not as a vehicle of nostalgia for some Golden Age, nor of escape to idyllic landscapes, but as a mode bearing witness to the possibilities and problems of human community and shared experience in the real world. A rich and engrossing book, What Is Pastoral? will soon take its place as the definitive study of pastoral literature. "Alpers succeeds brilliantly. . . . [He] offers . . . a wealth of new insight into the origins, development, and flowering of the pastoral."—Ann-Maria Contarino, Renaissance Quarterly