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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... seems quite right , since mock - epic is not burlesque , nor a base degradation , nor a humble yet exact imitation . The mock - epic does have strong and abiding ties to the epic . One tie runs , with systematic inversion , to a central ...
... seems a staple of Augustan poetics.3 What lends unity to such 1. Sitter , focusing on Blackmore , argues that The Dunciad is an anti - epic ( 55–65 ) . Though he is right to be suspicious of the traditional account , Sitter's solution ...
... seem . One striking feature of neoclassical accounts of epic — which is to say , of narrative generally — is how action is subordinated to argument or pre- cept . In the mock - epic , action serves argument , but both are in turn ...
... seems to drive a wedge between epic and mock - epic fables ( Dennis thought it did ) . If nothing else , the pother over the action , or lack of it , in The Dun- ciad should give us pause . Critics who have accepted these formulas have ...
... seem made for his poem , the complex logic that made this possible was the work of one Samuel Garth . In the last year of the seventeenth cen- tury Garth at once responded to and circumvented the traditional pro- gram for topical poetry ...
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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