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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... less canonical political poetry of the Restoration . This is a study of the po- etics of the Augustan mock - epic . These poems — Pope's several Dun- ciads , The Rape of the Lock , Garth's Dispensary , Dryden's MacFlecknoe , and such ...
... less a matter of background ( Nussbaum and Brown , 1987 ) . Even so , there are few direct challenges to the poetics of the midcentury , as though poetics were inherently doomed to arrive at the midcentury's ahistorical results . There ...
... less by tradition than by some of the more innovative aspects of the genre's poetics . The question is not how the mock - epic poet can balance the ancient ideal and modern reality , but how he can forge a version of the modern mind and ...
... less of the rise of than the form of its empiricism . 5. Sitter recognizes that " [ t j he Dunciad is primarily a descriptive poem , " but he sees the description in The Dunciad as " dealing with the emblematic manifestations of an ...
... less central , but the discourse of precept and example ( as , for example , in Addison's account of Chevy Chase in Spectator 70 ) continued right through Dr. Johnson's several famous dissertations on generality . tory books , although ...
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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