ISBN: 9780191572333

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 start… More...

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.Itincludes 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 thedecline 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.; PDF; Reference & Languages > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies: general > Literary studi, OUP Oxford<

ISBN: 9780191572333

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 start… More...

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.Itincludes 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 thedecline 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.; PDF; Reference & Languages > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies: general > Literary studi, OUP Oxford<

ISBN: 9780191572333

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 start… More...

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.Itincludes 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 thedecline 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.; PDF; Reference & Languages > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies: general > Literary studi, OUP Oxford<

2009, ISBN: 9780191572333

eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), 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 serio… More...

eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), 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. Itincludes 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 thedecline 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. [PU: OUP Oxford], Seiten: 464, OUP Oxford, 2009<

2009, ISBN: 9780191572333

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