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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... course consists in an appropriate expression of an idea or complex of ideas that accurately represents an object or state of affairs . Hence the two kinds of poetic license : that concerning expression and that con- cerning ideas ...
... course , Garth does not think he can simply reestablish any origins , erase the linguistic history of the dispute , and new mint old words . Quite the con- trary . Garth embraces the meanings impressed on these words by their history of ...
... course Cibber , dull and much pained , gets only half the story : " What , am I only to be dull , and dull still , and again , and for ever ? " ( A Letter , 27 ) . The Action in The Dunciad is grounded in the truth that the dunces are ...
... course ) of this canonical epic matter . Pope's is not . Sitter thinks that Pope engages in a studied avoidance of the canonical epic action by means of a studied parody of Blackmore's heterodox theories of the epic , and that this ...
... course is to submit oneself to others . This , not any simple endorsement of the significant , brutal action of the classical epic , reflects Augustan humanist thinking . Think of Dryden's heroic dramas , with their series of ...
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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