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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... claims of other interests , by Bill Veeder , whose extraordinarily careful reading and detailed advice rekindled the project for me . The manuscript was also read in various stages by oth- ers , to all of whom I give my thanks : Beth ...
... claim on them . The College does not face this disorder alone . A similarly disposed fable grounds Pope's mock - epics . Especially in its expanded version , the action in The Rape of the Lock also seems a steady progress from the ...
... claims about poetic structure , though critics interested in the didactic aspects of poems do so all the time . One prominent exam- ple is Aubrey Williams's effort to ground his oft - repeated conclusion with a three - step argument ...
... claim ( and , as we shall see , there is a sense in which he is right ) , Williams has no argument to bridge the space between his ob- servations about explicit meaning and thematic force and his conclu- sion about poetic structure . It ...
... claims of the literal . And so , in the face of those mis- takes and fictions , the tired propriety of the metaphors is challenged . By reestablishing the literal sense of this language . Garth renews its force as metaphor . By invoking ...
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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