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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... differences among the poems — how The Dispensary is the most Lucretian mock - epic ; how the Dunciads are the most personal ; how The New Dunciad is the most abstract and emblem- atic ; how The Battle of the Books is the least complex ...
... differences made me grow to meet their divergent expectations , while the humanity and decency they shared set an example I can only hope to live up to . The manu- script was saved , not quite from the fire as Swift is said to have ...
... Difference ... did not break out to Fury and Excess , till the Time of Erecting the Dispensary . " The " Fury and Excess " of a base- ment scuffle is barely violence , but such is the stuff of mock - epic . How 11. For Garth's use of ...
... difference is that Cambridge was sure that " nobody believes that the primary Design of either of these Poets was to write a Mock- Heroic " : Boileau being struck with the absurd Disputes of certain con- 18 DESIGNS ON TRUTH.
... differences among them lie only in the ground of the deviation . The one significant distinction is that between deviations based on though! or imagination and those based on words or propositions . Fiction falls into the domain of ...
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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