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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... language for talking about the myriad details in these poems was overcharged with modernist aesthetics — with the language of transfor- mation and metaphor , of myth and mythic " lands of larger values , " of simple and absolute ...
... language in his 1984 study Alexander Pope : The Genius of 4. Though much influenced by the " new criticism , " eighteenth - century studies was too in- terested in such " background " matters as history and biography . By laying earlier ...
... language . Mock - epic is fascinated by language , its powers of social control , and its frighten- ing — and thrilling — malleability . Mock - epic engages the manipulative powers of poetry in an effort to fix language , to make it a ...
... language of precept and example , specifically in response to questions of the effi- cacy of their poems . The terms became less central , but the discourse of precept and example ( as , for example , in Addison's account of Chevy Chase ...
... language ) to give us the benefit of the distant sight and to speak with the foreknowledge and wisdom of an Anchises . 1n that per- spective . Pope adopts the stance that was Dryden's and Garth's before him , in many ways the stance 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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