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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... matter of background ( Nussbaum and Brown , 1987 ) . Even so , there are few direct challenges to the poetics of the ... matters as history and biography . By laying earlier errors at the door of new criticism ( as in Griffin , xiv ) ...
... , 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.
... matters of overall design that Augustan critics and poets universally agreed were the " soul " of the epic . In that regard , there is a sense in which mock - epic " mocks " its epon- ymous form by turning traditional epic doctrine on ...
... matters are disposed otherwise . In Garth's story , for example , the action is a squabble in a controversial outpatient clinic established for the care of the poor : " The description of the Battel is grounded upon a Feud that happen'd ...
... matter arranged in a canonical plot , moving steadily from the first con- struction of the Dispensary to the scuffle that occasioned the poem . Concentrating on the action inside the Dispensary also furthers the poem's thematic design ...
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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