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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... mean to question such studies : I only note that , with respect to poetics , the legacy of the success of mid - century poetics has been chiefly avoidance and Milence . " My study presents a new , historical poetics of the Augustan mock ...
... mean ( and do ) to some community of readers . That correlation consti- tutes texts , and its description constitutes Poetics . ( For a general explanation , see Colomb [ 1986 ] ; for a standard technical account , see Eco ] 1979 ...
... means and end was achieved by the fable . Augustan critics knew that the fable was the most important fea- ture , its " soul " the relation between narrative form and didactic end . That relation is also key to the mock - epic , as ...
... mean and contempt- ible trades , were never taught the duty they owe to God or to their Sov- ereign , to their Native Country or the Laws thereof " ( Royal College , A3v - A4r ) . Even so , by 1699 the factionalism within the College ...
... mean by saying the utterance — to warn , to promise , and so on : analogous to my ' thematic force ' ) and ( 2 ) the perlocutionary force of an utterance ( the effect we mean to bring about — alerting someone , obligating oneself , and ...
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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