Designs on Truth: The Poetics of the Augustan Mock-EpicPenn State Press, 1992 M09 1 - 256 páginas Designs on Truth provides a reinterpretation of Augustan poetry, not as works to be defended before the court of Matthew Arnold and the Romantic tradition but as works that examine the rich relationships among text, culture, and world. In Designs on Truth, Gregory Colomb identifies the characteristics of the mock-epic and argues that the form had developed formal expectations. In making this argument, he explains the intentions of the writers of mock-epics, and expands our conception of the interest and significance of such poems. By demonstrating how these poems are supported by the genre's poetics, he brings out ways these poems differ from other &"Augustan&" poems such as the Horatian epistles that are often discussed with them. Designs on Truth puts into question the distinction between history and poetry in the mock-epic, examining it at three levels of poetic structure: fable (global narrative structure), and portraits (characterological narrative structure). Focusing chiefly on the mock-epic's representations in terms of class and &"kind,&" this study returns historical particulars to the central role that the poets had always given them and seeks to understand how they are made poetic. Designs on Truth shows how the poems themselves subvert any easy distinction between historical and poetic particulars. This often philosophical genre is itself a reconsideration of the role of reference (fact) and judgment (value) in representation. This study shows how representation and judgment work in the mock-epic, and how together they stand at the heart of the dominant Augustan poetic. Colomb also provides new readings of the mock-epic, including the first comprehensive reading of The Dispensary since the eighteenth century. |
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... physician named Samuel Garth created a poetic form that , refined by the most ac- complished poetic craftsman of the eighteenth century , became the par- adigmatic genre of high Augustan poetry . This book tells the story of that genre ...
... Physicians , he could draw on a number of mod- els . Epic connections were easy to find . His mock - heroic framework he borrowed almost whole from Boileau . His mock - heroic style he found in Dryden . And for modern epic he looked to ...
... Physicians ' extended debate at Mirmillo's house , the Collegiate Physi- cians ' brief one before the battle — details an inexorable psychological progress to violence , a progress in which passion and interest , the twin poles of early ...
... Physicians . Literalizing conventional metaphors for social and political strife , Garth takes the leading figures in that strife and makes them warriors , their political struggles a phys- ical combat of sorts . The literalizations ...
... physicians who , in Colocynthis's scornful phrase , " out o ' Consultation scarce can kill " ( III.228 ) , they have used words to absent themselves from the con- sequences of their actions . Garth's models for Colocynthis are Achilles ...
Contenido
Prologue | 33 |
Naming Names | 35 |
Dullness by Its Proper Name 3 | 59 |
Urban Gravitation | 79 |
Ranging Afield | 95 |
Prologue | 119 |
From Caricature to Portraiture 6 | 129 |
Dishonourable Confederacies | 145 |
A Taxonomy of Dunces 8 | 163 |
A Succession of Monarchs 9 | 183 |
Epilogue | 207 |
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