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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... the classical inheritance , see Weinbrot ( 1978 ) . Although Weinbrot has led some to abandon the term Augustan , I use it with all appropriate caveats . critics inherited from the Renaissance , the correlation between the Preface XV.
The Poetics of the Augustan Mock-Epic Gregory G. Colomb. critics inherited from the Renaissance , the correlation ... criticism embraces that world's design but has been blind to its mechanism . ) In a sentence , the mock - epic is a por ...
... critics spoke of genre in rationalist , Aristotelian terms that correlated genres to cul- tural systems relatively external to literature . Augustan poets reacted to genre as something constricting yet unavoidable — and so as a ground ...
... critics of the last half century , I too hope to explain the double — or multiple — vision of the mock - epic , of the mock - form , and of high Augustan poetry generally . But I see no need to assume that the doubleness of the genre ...
... criticism was substantially shaped by the amazing goings - on associated with The University of Virginia's " Theory Club , " which we organized at a time when New Literary History was still new and Crit- ical Inquiry not yet the second ...
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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