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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... values , and its clear - cut class structure , and , on the other hand , the messy , undifferentiated mass of ... value in representation , especially in the judgments embod- ied and evoked by the poems ' representations . It presents an ...
... values , " of simple and absolute distinctions between history and poetry , all legacies 1. See R. Cohen ( 1977 , 101–4 ) . 2. As early as 1976 , Donald Siebert ridiculed the “ School of Deep Intent , " but reached the surprising ...
... values that he depicts as deriving from the classical past , but no mock - epic adopts traditional val- ues wholesale , 7 and every mock - epic puts them in service of propa- ganda . They are supported in the poems less by tradition ...
... value of poetry as a form of writing relative to history and philosophy , with emphasis on poetry's " sharp , sensuously vivid ex- amples ( or images or pictures ) , " which are not " tied to the messy ( be- cause fallen ) world of fact ...
... values ( " but it must be admitted at the same time that such material becomes the bridge by which we cross to a land of larger values " [ 52 ] ) ; therefore , ( 3 ) The Dunciad is full of metaphors and is , as a whole , one great ...
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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