https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:21914 locus amoenus (pleasant place)—a utopian prototype. While associated primarily with vision poetry, the motif also served wider theological and philosophical purposes in the late Roman Republic and early Imperial periods and had spread beyond purely literary confines. The genre also engaged with philosophical, theological and eschatological themes. Thus engaging with Revelation 21 as a locus amoenus, as a contextually appropriate form, may have served as a jumping-off point into the less familiar realms of Judaic eschatological symbolism. Lastly, it is suggested that the appearance of the motif within what would become the Scriptures of emerging Christianity may provide a reason for the later more explicit developments of the genre in patristic writing.]]> Wed 11 Apr 2018 13:02:34 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:17207 Wed 11 Apr 2018 09:39:21 AEST ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31196 Love's Victory through a comparison with As You Like It. I am not arguing that Shakespeare's play had any direct influence on Wroth, but I want to posit a rewriting of certain pastoral attitudes toward gender roles in Wroth's play, and this rewriting becomes clearer when As You Like It can stand as a touchstone for a number of pastoral themes. Like all examples of the pastoral, Love's Victory is extremely self-conscious about the genre itself and forms part of Wroth's complex engagement with the work of her uncle Philip Sidney, whose pastoral writing is already conscious of a certain belatedness-although it could be argued that pastoral always has a sense of belatedness (see Alphers 1997, ch. 2).]]> Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:44:42 AEDT ]]>