Studien Zum Komischen EposMock-heroic poetry is one of the most characteristic genres of English neoclassicism in the eighteenth century, including not only masterpieces such as Pope's The Rape of the Lock and The Dunciad, but also numerous minor poems. This book is the first comprehensive study of the theory, the conventions, and the history of the mock-heroic genre. Broich first shows how mock-heroic poetry combines the characteristics of various discourses--epic, comedy, parody, satire, and occasional poetry. Later, he traces the history of mock-heroic poetry: its foreign sources, its beginnings in England, the "rivalry" with other forms of comic narrative, and its decline in the second half of the eighteenth century. |
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Contents
The conventions of the mockheroic poem | 27 |
The disguise and suspension of reality | 37 |
Imitation and parody of the epic | 50 |
The mockheroic poem as satire | 73 |
The history of the mockheroic poem | 75 |
Boileaus Le Lutrin and the first phase of the genres | 93 |
Popes The Rape of the Lock | 109 |
The Rape of the Lock and the heroicomical poem second | 128 |
Popes Dunciad | 142 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Studien Zum Komischen Epos European Studies in English Literature |
| Author | Ulrich Broich |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1990 |
| ISBN | 0521309654, 9780521309653 |
| Length | 234 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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