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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... rea- son .... [ Pope ] serves as a useful corrective to a too narrow idea of poetry " ( Edwards , 1971 , 303-4 ) . Also see Clifford ( 1965 ) and Miller ( 1972 ) . Sense , but at times defers to mid - century xiv PREFACE.
... served by these stories was finally just the establishment of the professional , its ideology a product of an economic organization defined increasingly in terms of professions and trades . In the mock - epic , this ideology is ex ...
... serves as a useful corrective to a too narrow idea of poetry . " Only the narrowness I have in mind is not Matthew Arnold's . If we would under- stand the Augustan mock - epics , it is time to ask again those hard ques- tions about ...
... , Chalmers's 1810 edition in The Works of the English Poets will serve those who cannot find one of the better texts . Moralizing the Song 1 For the moral ( as Bossu A Note on the Text A Note on the Text: of The Dispensary.
... serve too many political interests , and had fallen into disrepute as the work of hacks . Then the mock - epic , by way of Dryden's example , stepped into that breach , to continue as the poetry of succession and establishment — and as ...
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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