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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... published continuously since 1584 . Cambridge University Press Cambridge New York Port Chester Melbourne Sydney Published by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge.
... published continuously since 1584 . Cambridge University Press Cambridge New York Port Chester Melbourne Sydney Published by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge.
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... published in German as Studien zum komischen Epos by Max Niemeyer Verlag 1968 and Max Niemeyer Verlag First published in English by Cambridge University Press 1990 as The Eighteenth - Century Mock - Heroic Poem English translation ...
... published in German as Studien zum komischen Epos by Max Niemeyer Verlag 1968 and Max Niemeyer Verlag First published in English by Cambridge University Press 1990 as The Eighteenth - Century Mock - Heroic Poem English translation ...
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... Cambridge's The Scribleriad 169 Hayley's The Triumphs of Temper 172 Conclusion Notes Select bibliography 177 181 216 Index of authors and titles 229 Preface Since this book was first published some twenty years Contents xi.
... Cambridge's The Scribleriad 169 Hayley's The Triumphs of Temper 172 Conclusion Notes Select bibliography 177 181 216 Index of authors and titles 229 Preface Since this book was first published some twenty years Contents xi.
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Contents
The conventions of the mockheroic poem | 27 |
The disguise and suspension of reality | 37 |
25 | 43 |
Imitation and parody of the epic | 50 |
The mockheroic poem as satire | 68 |
The history of the mockheroic poem | 75 |
Boileaus Le Lutrin and the first phase of the genres | 93 |
The Rape of the Lock and the heroicomical poem second | 128 |
The decline of the heroicomical poem | 137 |
The decline and fall of the mockheroic poem third phase | 158 |
Criticisms on the Rolliad and Wolcots The Lousiad | 164 |
Hayleys The Triumphs of Temper | 172 |
Notes | 181 |
Select bibliography | 216 |
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