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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... true mock - epic , which he thought must systematically invert each feature of the epic ( a genre with one member , his Scribleriad ) , and poems like The Rape of the Lock or The Dunciad , which he thought no more than adventitious ...
... true of the machinery , Sitter would give all the persons In the poem the abstract status of the machines : " The descriptions of Cibber seated complacently in the midst of adulation , of Jacob ' emulating ' Curll , of Benson ' propt ...
... true " ( Youngren , 1968 , 160 ) . Renaissance critics had been little concerned with generality and particularity but very much con- cerned with the value of poetry as a form of writing relative to history and philosophy , with ...
... true test of his art - he must work up his fable with all the expertise at his command . The reader , but only if he wished , would reverse the process , go- ing from particulars to generals to particulars again . ( Wallace , 1974 , 185 ...
... true that all hairs are not the same and that hairs are not hymen , but they are each boundaries of Ar- abella's person . Belinda - Arabella may overvalue her lock : indeed she at- tends so assiduously to the accoutrements of her person ...
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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