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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... Lock and The Dun- ciad , in this configuration are , as the good Scriblerus puts it , " Mysteries oг àπóρρητα❞ and so " more ... than meets the ear " ( B IV.4n ) . Action The Action in epic centers on the action of 8 DESIGNS ON TRUTH.
... Lock , ' and the ' Secchia Rapita , ' but only an inference which Pope chose to found on the real actions of the various persons whom he satirises " ( E - C , IV.21 ) . It is no accident that critics have gravitated toward fiction to ...
... Lock also seems a steady progress from the inception of the Baron's scheme to the battle . 15 Yet , as was the case in The Dispensary , the battle of The Rape of the Lock gave Pope a subject whose over - narrow focus became one of the ...
... lock is to violate her person , and both she and the Baron know it . The battle in the poem arises because Belinda - Arabella is an absolut- ist . She holds a view of personal integrity that requires her to be un- touched by human hand ...
... lock or literature than about what he does in focusing his poem ( the question of poetics ) . These ac- counts speak more to our reading of the work and its didactic aims than to its poetic structure — which is all well and good unless ...
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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