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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... , theology , and epistemology . As intention , design conjoins de- sires and their fulfillment , with plans and plots the exemplars of intentionality . tic , official histories succeed when they become canonical and xvi PREFACE.
... become canonical and so si- lence other voices . The pillory is also an instrument of law and social domination ... becomes a poem about a woman . I will not address any number of differences among the poems — how The Dispensary is the ...
... become again a work of intrinsic interest . If my attention to The Dispensary causes a reader or two to share my interest , let that be lagniappe for both of us . Finally , like the critics of the last half century , I too hope to ...
... become de rigueur to repeat Sidney's affirmation of the fictiveness of poetry as though that were his final word ( the poet , he says , " nothing affirmeth " ) , for Sidney as for Restoration critics , the many powers of poetry are con ...
... becomes of course the Hero of the poem .... As for the characters , the publick hath already acknowledged how justly they are drawn : the manners are so depicted , and the sentiments so peculiar to those to whom applied , that surely to ...
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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