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

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

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

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 17 January 2025, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:034012

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 2025 January 17] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:034012

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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TitleMythologizing 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
AuthorValentina Novoselac
MentorBorislav Berić (mentor)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Osijek
Defense date and country2016-09-23, 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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Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:142:034012
Study programmeTitle: 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 programmeTitle: 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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