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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... poets and 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 ...
... , Chalmers's 1810 edition in The Works of the English Poets will serve those who cannot find one of the better texts . Moralizing the Song 1 For the moral ( as Bossu A Note on the Text A Note on the Text: of The Dispensary.
... poet , as being the groundwork of his instruction . This being formed , be contrives such a design , or fable , as ... poets believed were the motive forces of their unheroic social antagonists . Those representations are a major ...
... poets represented it conjoined in the narrative with inev- itable and reprehensible consequences — for civilization ... poetic kinds . We have learned to expect such complex generic interrelations , so that generic innovation now seems a ...
... poets universally agreed were the " soul " of the epic . In that regard , there is a sense in which mock - epic " mocks " its epon- ymous form by turning traditional epic doctrine on its head , drastically attenuating the role of action ...
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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