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Author | : Ritchie Robertson |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2009-11-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191610143 |
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This is a study of mock-epic poetry in English, French, and German from the 1720s to the 1840s. While mock-heroic poetry is a parodistic counterpart to serious epic, mock-epic poetry starts by parodying epic but moves on to much wider and richer literary explorations; it relies heavily on intertextual allusion to other works, on narratorial irony, on the sympathetic and sometimes libertine presentation of sexual relatons, and on a range of satirical devices. It includes well-known texts (Pope's Dunciad, Byron's Don Juan, Heine's Atta Troll) and others which are little known (Ratschky's Melchior Striregel, Parny's La Guerre des Dieux). It owes a marked debt to Italian romance epic (especially Ariosto). The study places these texts in the literary context of the decline of serious epic, which helped mock epic to flourish, and of the 'Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes' which questioned the authority of Homer's and Virgil's epics; and it relates their substance to contemporary debates about questions of religion and gender.
Author | : Ulrich Broich |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1990-10-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521309653 |
Download Studien Zum Komischen Epos Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is the first comprehensive study of the theory, the conventions and the history of the mock-heroic genre. In the first part, Ulrich Broich shows how mock-heroic poetry combines the characteristics of various discourses - epic, comedy, parody, satire and occasional poetry. The second part traces the history of mock-heroic poetry.
Author | : Gary Day |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 1524 |
Release | : 2015-03-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1444330209 |
Download The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the poetry, drama, fiction, and literary and cultural criticism produced from the Restoration of the English monarchy to the onset of the French Revolution Comprises over 340 entries arranged in A-Z format across three fully indexed and cross-referenced volumes Written by an international team of leading and emerging scholars Features an impressive scope and range of subjects: from courtship and circulating libraries, to the works of Samuel Johnson and Sarah Scott Includes coverage of both canonical and lesser-known authors, as well as entries addressing gender, sexuality, and other topics that have previously been underrepresented in traditional scholarship Represents the most comprehensive resource available on this period, and an indispensable guide to the rich diversity of British writing that ushered in the modern literary era 3 Volumes www.literatureencyclopedia.com
Author | : Alexander Pope |
Publisher | : Graphic Arts Books |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2020-12-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1513272667 |
Download Rape of the Lock Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Rape of the Lock (1906) is a classic, epic poem by English literary icon Alexander Pope. Known for his caustic wit and satirical outlook as much as he was for his formal expertise, Pope is arguably the most important English poet of the eighteenth century. His work influenced such figures as William Wordsworth, Samuel Johnson, and Jonathan Swift. Drawing on his immense knowledge of ancient Greek and Latin literature, Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock is a mock epic which captures the essence of classical divinity and poetry while illuminating the absurdity and stupidity of English aristocratic life. The poem centers on a Baron’s obsession with the hair of the beautiful socialite Belinda. Although her hair is protected by divine Sylphs, the Baron eventually succeeds, using a pair of scissors to snip off a lock of Belinda’s hair. This throws the world of the poem into chaos—Belinda is outraged, and the divine creatures which move invisibly between worlds try their best to restore order to the universe. The poem culminates with a battle between Belinda and the Baron, mimicking the heroism and warfare of the best of Homer while casting a critical eye on the values of England’s elite. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.
Author | : Henry Power (Lecturer in English) |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198723873 |
Download Epic Into Novel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Epic into Novel examines the work of Henry Fielding alongside other key eighteenth-century writers to examine how the conflicting influences of the classical tradition and the new literary marketplace were reconciled.
Author | : Howard Erskine-Hill |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2024-06-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1638041105 |
Download Alexander Pope Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This critical biography places Pope’s life and poetry in the context of the political state of Britain following the Revolution of 1688. It gives close readings of Pope’s major poems, including the less commonly discussed translations of Homer. Frequent resort is made to Pope’s letters, including new items. A final chapter discusses Pope’s literary reputation in the later eighteenth-century.
Author | : Tom Jones |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2012-07-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748656189 |
Download Poetic Language Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first study of poetic language from a historical and philosophical perspectiveIn a series of 12 chapters, exemplary poems - by Walter Ralegh, John Milton,William Cowper, William Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, Frank O'Hara, Robert Creeley, W. S. Graham, Tom Raworth, Denise Riley and Thomas A. Clark - are read alongside theoretical discussions of poetic language. The discussions provide a jargon-free account of a wide range of historical and contemporary schools of thought about poetic language, and an organised, coherent critique of those schools (including analytical philosophy, cognitive poetics, structuralism and post-structuralism). Via close readings of poems from 1600 to the present readers are taken through a wide range of styles including modernist, experimental and innovative poetries. Paired chapters within a chronological structure allow lecturers and students to approach the material in a variety of ways (by individual chapters, paired historical periods) that are appropriate to different courses.
Author | : Jonathan Greenberg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1107030188 |
Download The Cambridge Introduction to Satire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Provides a comprehensive overview for both beginning and advanced students of satiric forms from ancient poetry to contemporary digital media.
Author | : Louise D'Arcens |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843843803 |
Download Comic Medievalism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The role of laughter and humour in the postmedieval citation, interpretation or recreation of the middle ages has hitherto received little attention, a gap in scholarship which this book aims to fill. Examining a wide range of comic texts and practices across several centuries, from Don Quixote and early Chaucerian modernisation through to Victorian theatre, the Monty Python films, television and the experience of visiting sites of "heritage tourism" such as the Jorvik Viking Museum at York, it identifies what has been perceived as uniquely funny about the Middle Ages in different times and places, and how this has influenced ideas not just about the medieval but also about modernity. Tracing the development and permutations of its various registers, including satire, parody, irony, camp, wit, jokes, and farce, the author offers fresh and amusing insight into comic medievalism as a vehicle for critical commentary on the present as well as the past, and shows that for as long as there has been medievalism, people have laughed at and with the middle ages. Louise D'Arcens is Associate Professor in English Literatures at the University of Wollongong.
Author | : Andrew Cusack |
Publisher | : Camden House |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1571135197 |
Download Popular Revenants Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
There is growing interest in the internationality of the literary Gothic, which is well established in English Studies. Gothic fiction is seen as transgressive, especially in the way it crosses borders, often illicitly. In the 1790s, when the English Gothic novel was emerging, the real or ostensible source of many of these uncanny texts was Germany. This first book in English dedicated to the German Gothic in over thirty years redresses deficiencies in existing English-language sources, which are outdated, piecemeal, or not sufficiently grounded in German Studies.