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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... shared set an example I can only hope to live up to . The manu- script was saved , not quite from the fire as Swift is said to have saved The Dunciad , but from the claims of other interests , by Bill Veeder , whose extraordinarily ...
... shared : the ever - increasing domestication of literary forms ; the emphasis on the particulars of the here and now ; the influence of popular , often jour- nalistic literary forms . In the novel , these changes produced such trav ...
... are bound firmly to the earlier by their concern with poetry's moral 7. For a modern account of allegory in epic , see Murrin ( 1969 ) . function and by the central shared assumption that its sensuous Introduction : Moralizing the Song 5.
... shared assumption that its sensuous vivid- ness and imaginative freedom make poetry the best moral teacher— better than philosophy because it furnishes examples rather than precepts and better than history because its examples are ...
... shared standards are obviously violated in The Dispensary , as in the other poems . However appropriate Garth's story to his thematic and polemical concerns , the fact remains that there was never any violence , official or otherwise ...
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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