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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... fact as In the poem lived up to his name . Homer's " Stentor the strong , endu'd with Brazen Lungs " is used by Juno to rouse the Trojans to action : " Her speech new Fury to their Hearts convey'd " ( Pope . Iliad . 5.978 , 986 ) ...
... fact that the dunces are everywhere . We see this fact again when , in the al- most cinematic final gesture , Pope slowly widens his focus ( and gener- alizes his language ) to give us the benefit of the distant sight and to speak with ...
... facts , then our questions about fiction become more complex . We find , for example , that Garth's rejection of ... fact remains that there was never any violence , official or otherwise , on the part of the College ( though Garth ...
... fact that Garth exploits in his poem . But these metaphors of battle are also grounded in the basic cultural metaphor , argument is war ( see Lakoff and Turner , 1989 ) . Their use to describe political contests , especially the Dis ...
... fact of late seventeenth - century medical practice was that at its best it was usually no more beneficial than doing nothing at all , and only the most incompetent care could be worse than indifferent . making The Dunciad a poem 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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