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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... literary " and " poetic " particulars to the po- sition of foreground or " figure . " Its methods were principally tropolog- ical , sublimating the cruel and particular pleasures of the mock - epic's literary pillory into emblems and ...
... literary politics , medical politics , the politics of the community of Cath- olic families , even sexual politics is part of a larger polemic on the rights and duties of establishment . Since mock - epic holds the conservative view ...
... literary mode than a genre . 10 I take the genre as a nodal and exemplary point in the general sweep of the mock - heroic— exemplary because it most complexly realizes the mock - heroic mode ; because it is the most inclusive of ...
... Origins , too , play a role , since con- temporary readers are , by and large , responsive to matters of intentionulity , of original context , of literary and social affiliations . All books gather debts , but I have been more XX PREFACE.
... literary criticism was substantially shaped by the amazing goings - on associated with The University of Virginia's " Theory Club , " which we organized at a time when New Literary History was still new and Crit- ical Inquiry not yet ...
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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