Mythologizing and Demythologizing of Rural life in the Poetry of Gray, Goldsmith, and Crabbe

Novoselac, Valentina

undergraduate thesis

Mythologizing and Demythologizing of Rural life in the Poetry of Gray, Goldsmith, and Crabbe

Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2016. urn:nbn:hr:142:034012

Novoselac, Valentina

Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Novoselac, V. (2016). Mythologizing and Demythologizing of Rural life in the Poetry of Gray, Goldsmith, and Crabbe (Undergraduate thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:034012

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Novoselac, Valentina. "Mythologizing and Demythologizing of Rural life in the Poetry of Gray, Goldsmith, and Crabbe." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2016. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:034012

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Novoselac, V. (2016). 'Mythologizing and Demythologizing of Rural life in the Poetry of Gray, Goldsmith, and Crabbe', Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 01 July 2024, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:034012

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Novoselac V. Mythologizing and Demythologizing of Rural life in the Poetry of Gray, Goldsmith, and Crabbe [Undergraduate thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2016 [cited 2024 July 01] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:034012

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V. Novoselac, "Mythologizing and Demythologizing of Rural life in the Poetry of Gray, Goldsmith, and Crabbe", Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2016. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:034012

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Title	Mythologizing and Demythologizing of Rural life in the Poetry of Gray, Goldsmith, and Crabbe
Title (croatian)	Mitologija i njen nestanak u ruralnim pjesmama Graya, Goldsmitha i Crabbea
Author	Valentina Novoselac
Mentor	Borislav Berić (mentor)
Granter	Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Department of English Language and Literature) Osijek
Defense date and country	2016-09-23, Croatia
Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline	HUMANISTIC SCIENCES Philology Theory and History of Literature
Abstract	Rural life has been portrayed as idyllic for a long time in literature, while the reality of villagers’ life was concealed. The eighteenth century was a harsh period of time, especially for villages, due to the advancement in economy and industry, which made villagers’ life even harder. Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith, and George Crabbe refused to create illusions about rural life in their poetry, so they described rural life as it was. Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” is a well-known poem that sheds light on lives of the poor villagers and describes the hardships of their everyday work, breaking the illusions previously set by the pastoral poetry, but keeping beautiful descriptions of rural nature. Oliver Goldsmith’s “The Deserted Village” brings sadness into the speaker’s realization upon returning to his idyllic childhood village that it is now in ruins and abandoned, blaming luxury and greed of the rich people for creating such atrocity. Lastly, George Crabbe brings the harsh truth in its purest form in his poem “The Village”, describing the abject poverty and life full of suffering and sickness the poor people lived in, mentioning not a single positive feature about the so-called peaceful rural life. These poems bring another perspective to the usual pastoral one, creating a realistic picture of what rural life genuinely is.
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Language	english
URN:NBN	urn:nbn:hr:142:034012
Study programme	Title: English Language and Literature (double major) Study programme type: university Study level: undergraduate Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti)
Study programme	Title: Philosophy (double major) Study programme type: university Study level: undergraduate Academic / professional title: sveučililišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) filozofije (sveučililišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) filozofije)
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