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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... Proper Name " 4 Urban Gravitation 33 35 59 79 5 Ranging Afield 95 Part II : The Figure in the Portrait Prologue 119 6 From Caricature to Portraiture 129 7 " Dishonourable Confederacies " 145 8 A Taxonomy of Dunces 9 A Succession of ...
... proper to their several characters . The thoughts and words are the last parts , which give beauty and colouring to the piece . —Dryden , " A Parallel of Poetry and Painting " ( 1695 ) Take out of any old Poem , History - books ...
... proper , in those raised above their station when in 1687 James II forced the College to enlarge its membership as part of his effort to fill Parlia- ment and other political institutions with his supporters . These outsid- ers brought ...
... and narrative structure carry the reader forward to Harvey's closing speech ( VI.305-83 ) , which returns the metaphors to their proper use . ies ' Company was highly conventionalized , and it very 22 DESIGNS ON TRUTH.
... proper , “ original ” use : Colocynthis 23. Civil strife and violence were very sensitive issues at the turn of the century . Talk of actual battles would have been a very serious matter — a fact that Garth exploits in his poem . But ...
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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