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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... question less of the rise of than the form of its empiricism . 5. Sitter recognizes that " [ t j he Dunciad is primarily a descriptive poem , " but he sees the description in The Dunciad as " dealing with the emblematic manifestations ...
... question was not our question — What is the true nature of the poetic utterance ? —but a question we hardly ever ask : Is poetry the best form of moral instruction ? This poetic rests on the issue of the effects of kinds of ...
... question of poetics — the role of 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 ...
... questions about fiction become more complex . We find , for example , that Garth's rejection of violence is accomplished by some- thing of an act of violence , in the sense that we have relatively clear standards for when a ...
... questions of forms of representation — Dryden's analysis of the " Aristotelian " unities in " Of Dramatic Poesy " and ... question about the relation- ship between poet and victim . The traditional Renaissance account had nothing to say ...
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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