Mock Epic Poetry From Pope To Heine

Author : Ritchie Robertson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191610143
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine written by Ritchie Robertson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780521309653
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studien Zum Komischen Epos written by Ulrich Broich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1444330209
Total Pages : 1524 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set written by Gary Day and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 1524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1513272667
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rape of the Lock written by Alexander Pope and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0198723873
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epic Into Novel written by Henry Power (Lecturer in English) and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1638041105
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alexander Pope written by Howard Erskine-Hill and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0748656189
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetic Language written by Tom Jones and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1107030188
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Satire written by Jonathan Greenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1843843803
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comic Medievalism written by Louise D'Arcens and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1571135197
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Revenants written by Andrew Cusack and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.