The eighteenth-century mock-heroic poem

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The eighteenth-century mock-heroic poem

Ulrich Broich ; translated from the German by David Henry Wilson

（European studies in English literature）

Cambridge University Press, 1990

タイトル別名

Studien zum komischen Epos

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Translation of: Studien zum komischen Epos

Bibliography: p. 216-228

Includes index

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内容説明

Mock-heroic poetry is one of the most characteristic genres of English neoclassicism in the eighteenth century. Derived from French models, the mock-heroic became something more than merely a parody of the serious epic: relieved of its gravity, it was nevertheless a legitimate and independent form of epic poetry. 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 'polyphonic' genre which emerges from this analysis stands in ironic contrast to the neoclassical ideal of decorum in a harmonious unity of discourse and form. The second part 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.

目次

  • Foreword
  • List of abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Conventions of the Mock-Heroic Poem: 1. The presentation of contemporary reality
  • 2. The disguise and suspension of reality
  • 3. Imitation and parody of the epic
  • 4. The mock-heroic poem as satire
  • Part II. The History of the Mock-Heroic Poem: 5. Different types of mock-heroic poem and their pre-neoclassical models
  • 6. Boileau's Le Lutrin and the first phase of the genre's development in England (c. 1681 - c. 1712)
  • 7. Pope's The Rape of the Lock (1712-14)
  • 8. The Rape of the Lock and the heroi-comical poem (second phase, c. 1714 - c. 1742)
  • 9. Pope's Dunciad (1728-43)
  • 10. The decline and fall of the mock-heroic poem (third phase, c. 1742 - c. 1800)
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index of authors and titles.

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