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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... fiction lies at the heart of the genre's designs . But the fiction in the mock - epic seems not to be well served by any of our usual ways of talking about it . After all , fiction is now synonymous with that other late Augustan branch ...
... fiction . Moreover , early novelists were less tied than the poets to traditional forms . Of the novelists , only Fielding and perhaps Sterne felt any very powerful need to accommodate their fictions to neoclassical theories of epic ...
... fiction in the fables — they are incom- plete . The kind of strongly thematic account I have given says ( to use a Gricean distinction ) very much more about what the poet does by fo- cusing his poem on the violence or the lock or ...
... Fictions By concentrating on actions and battles we see mock - epic chiefly through its ties with epic . If , however ... fiction become more complex . We find , for example , that Garth's rejection of violence is accomplished by some ...
... fiction : but then those thoughts must be expressed ; and here arise two other branches of it : for if this licence be included in a single word , it admits of tropes ; if in a sentence or proposition , of figures ; both of which are 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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